With the Pentagon calling for a nuclear response to non-nuclear attacks on critical infrastructure, a new book explores the digital front.

Physicist Alan Lightman ponders this and other questions in his new book, "Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine."

With the author having turned 82 this week, we take a look at his life's work, including two new editions.

A new book maintains that historians have paid too much attention to monarchies, empires, governments and corporations, and too little to the loose social networks that often end up disrupting them.

A new book, "Patriot Number One," tracks the journey of a political refugee from China to the underground world of undocumented immigrants in New York.

An oral history of Tony Kushner's masterwork reveals how to make political art that offers lasting solace in times of great trouble.

Tom Sleigh travels to war zones and refugee camps, yet views intervention on his part as transgression. When does passivity become complicity?

A new book argues that the memorialization of the movement becomes "a veil to obscure enduring racial inequality, a tool to chastise contemporary protest, and a shield to charges of indifference and inaction."

As a onetime insider and longtime student of nuclear strategy, Daniel Ellsberg provides a helpful overview coupled with historical details in his latest book on nuclear war.