Tove Ditlevsen saw up close the fine line between the confessional and the salacious, between being a public figure and an object of prurience.

Kristin Kobes Du Mez studies the white Christian women who preach a religion of universal love but practice a politics of division, exclusion, and hate.

Susan Neiman laments a loss of moral conviction among Trump’s opponents. But she is looking in the wrong places.

It’s hard to argue with the Canadian poet who was awarded literature’s most prestigious award on Thursday. That may be the problem.

As he looks back on a life in ideas, he is able to see the flaws in his system. But he cannot take seriously the type of politics that might address them.

As he writes of his childhood in Syria, of protest at Columbia, and of ICE detention, Khalil refuses to be reduced to a “face on a poster.”

Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan’s new book reminds readers that the Supreme Court’s power to determine a law’s validity has no basis in the Constitution.

David Thomson is the ultimate film buff. He also believes film has drastically distorted reality.

Steinem faced a problem familiar to many activist writers: how to live according to your political principles without sacrificing your art—or vice versa.

The New Orleans writer’s career has been refreshingly unproductive. She writes the only way she knows how: comic, intuitive, frustrating.

Trump inherited laws designed over two centuries to benefit slaveholders, eugenicists, and segregationists.

Carlos Barragán’s reporting on young men in Nigeria who defrauded women over the internet illuminates a grim world of poverty and loneliness.

A new book argues that the Marquis de Morès was a forerunner of Hitler and Mussolini, even though they emerged from very different political moments.

The seasoned criminals of “Cool Machine” adapt to the chaos, striving, and gentrification of the 1980s.

John Washington’s How to Close a Camp is a practical guide to opposing ICE and a strong moral argument for action.

In her history of the Jewish Labor Bund, Molly Crabapple tells the story of workers who opposed prejudice, tyranny, and nationalism.

Emily LaBarge was taken hostage with her family on vacation over Christmas 2009. Her memoir acknowledges the gaps in her memory, and the details she won’t share.

The Story of Capital connects the world of the academy and the world of the street protest.

After becoming a parent, Aviv revisited some of her old stories, finding newly revealing details and asking follow-up questions.