As with many things in our history, humans have spent much effort trying misguidedly to control the natural instinct to sleep.
This new biography is the masterpiece that the gadfly of youthful America deserves.
In Jenny Zhang’s debut collection of short stories, characters are filled with battle scars whose origins remain invisible.
A disturbing inside look at conservative evangelicals by Terry Heaton, a former right-hand man to Pat Robertson (pictured).
Svetlana Alexievich's first book, a harrowing oral history of women in World War II, is now available for the first time in English.
In a country that expresses reverence for due process, a 17-year-old is arrested, put on trial, sentenced to death, then shuttled among death row cellblocks for 13 years, all for a crime he didn't commit.
For the Catholic Church to respect the rights of LGBT people would require upending the sexuality stigma and gender hierarchy on which it is built.
A new book by writer, photographer and union organizer David Bacon is a bilingual fusion of journalism and documentary photography that reveals the humanity and suffering of marginalized Latino workers.
A muckraking new book exposes the hidden reality of oral disease -- a stepchild in the health care debate and likely the largest pre-existing condition of all -- in the United States.
Author Pamela Pennock pushes back against politically fueled stereotypes and makes a case for reframing Arab Americans’ present-day struggles.
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