The vice president’s book, to be released in June, will detail his return to Christianity after leaving the loosely evangelical practice of his childhood.

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Almost every ideology can be wielded to make women feel that they’re failing.

Almost every ideology can be wielded to make women feel that they’re failing.

Doctors believed that Woody Brown would never be able to speak or process language. He went to graduate school and is publishing his debut novel.

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Is Lindy West a feminist? Is she happy? Everyone has an opinion.

The planners of the Iran war had plenty of on-the-ground intelligence but operated with little insight into the minds of their enemies.

Marshall McLuhan was right about Claude, too.

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Marshall McLuhan was right about Claude, too.

As more A.I. generated writing is unleashed on the world, more readers will question who — or what — has penned their favorite works.

“Starry and Restless,” by Julia Cooke, delivers an immersive account of the pathbreaking careers of Rebecca West, Martha Gellhorn and Emily Hahn.

In “Red Dawn Over China,” the historian Frank Dikötter shows that Communism’s rise in China was an unlikely, violent event with a lot of outside help.