This year’s event put the spotlight on Philippines and on Ukrainian literature as a form of resistance against Russian colonialism ...

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of The Wax Child by Olga Ravn and P.S. You’re the Worst by Chloe Seager.

Across the democratic world, the postwar era’s dominant political parties are losing their grip. One paradox of American ...

Thomas Mann, from behind, 1930. Hans Castorp, the protagonist of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, famously spends seven ...

Who Is a True Christian? is an ambitious book. It draws together theology, politics, and culture to provide both a diagnosis ...

If you enjoyed Beth Gardiner’s feature about big oil’s bet on plastics, here are more books curated by Scientific American ...

It’s useful to think of our engagement with algorithms as a social contract. Political theorists have long used the social contract as a device to explain why individuals submit to the authority of a ...

This week brings new releases from Joy Williams, Simon Winchester and Tracy K. Smith, among other talented writers.

I.B. Tauris, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has announced the publication of Professor Harutyun Marutyan’s ...

Scholars Andreas Malm and Wim Carton on how tech fixes to the climate crisis delay the confrontation with fossil capital.

Robin Waterfield’s new translation of Thucydides’ “The History of the Peloponnesian War” offers clarity but little ...

Lydia Polgreen speaks to the former New York Times bureau chief Howard W. French about the cost of not engaging with Africa.