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Johann Hari's "Stolen Focus" examines how technology robs us of our attention, and how to get it back.

Gillian Flynn, Carmen Maria Machado and other authors discuss their creative process.

In a new book, a cold-case team identifies a Jewish man as the likely culprit, stirring questions about culpability in extreme circumstances.

The best-selling author of “It Ends With Us” has struck a chord with her emotional novels.

In "Small World," short chapters and sheer eventfulness keep the story chugging along.

Christopher Leonard focuses on Thomas Hoenig, onetime president of the Kansas City Fed, to explore the policy implications.

Lea Ypi recalls her childhood in Albania and the nation's swift, disorienting shift away from communism.

Robert Gottlieb's portrait of the eccentric actress explores her conflicting needs for companionship and privacy.

Zora Neale Hurston did not mince words about race and gender. Now we can read them, unfiltered.

Butler earned fame and respect fighting America's imperialist wars -- and came to regret his role, Jonathan M. Katz writes.