Tony Tulathimutte is a master comedian whose original and highly disturbing new book skewers liberal pieties.

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Tony Tulathimutte’s new stories center on the young, alienated, unloved people you can’t stop watching.

As a young conservative, David Brock smeared Hill, who accused the Supreme Court justice of sexual harassment. Now, in a new book, Brock is denouncing Thomas and the court’s rightward tilt — and contending with his own complicated past.

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As the stars of the “Romeo + Juliet” that opens on Broadway, they will die for love. And to make that convincing, they need to become friends first.

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Accepting that is the first step toward making it more tolerable.

Three readers could pick the story written by Curtis Sittenfeld; another calls the experiment unfair. Also: Afghan women; athletes and crowds; pro-union workers.

Readers share their love of books in response to Margaret Renkl’s essay. Also: Taxes on the superrich; teaching the Bible; nurturing friendships.

Every lifelong reader knows why reading books is important. But how do you convey all that to a reluctant 12-year-old?

A new memoir by the onetime national security adviser shows how the former president’s insecurities and weaknesses harmed U.S. foreign policy.

In “Prisoner of Lies,” Barry Werth tells the story of a young C.I.A. operative who spent two decades waiting out the postwar era in a Chinese jail cell.

In the 1960s, he was among the first Westerners allowed into the country, and for decades he helped the rest of the world understand it.

The author Peter Hessler posed a question with an elusive answer: How could Chinese society open up so profoundly while its politics stagnated or even regressed?

The author Peter Hessler posed a question with an elusive answer: How could Chinese society open up so profoundly while its politics stagnated or even regressed?

In “Private Revolutions,” Yuan Yang follows the lives of women in a rapidly changing modern superpower.