In November, a chasm opened in the middle of one of the most popular online reading spaces. It started after the election, as political chatter bled into BookTok. On one side of the app, readers ...

Here’s what we’re turning to for clarity and perspective on our current political moment. By Jess Bidgood The last few months have felt like a political thriller, an epic co-written by Shakespeare and ...

The news cycle is increasingly intense, and most of us can barely keep up these days. A huge part of what is dominating our news content, from television screens to phones, is politics. One day, we’re ...

After a star-studded Democratic National Convention full of impassioned cries to get out the vote, it’s hard not to feel like the country is on the verge of electing its first Black female President.

NEW YORK — Brandon Sanderson, whose epic “Wind and Truth” is a highlight of the upcoming publishing season, sees nothing wrong with the idea of “escapism.” “It’s just the ability to go to another ...

“What else is there to learn?” she says. “And for people who don’t know, the books have been written. It’s all really out in the open now.” For publishers, Donald Trump‘s presidential years were a ...

At times of political and cultural upset, literature has often been a way for society to process, understand, and push back against unethical policies or administrations. Many of the most well known ...

In March 2026, the most important political book of the last several years will be published. It’s called The Information State: Politics in the Age of Total Control. The author is Jacob Siegel, a ...

In this conversation, the New York Times Opinion columnists Carlos Lozada, a former book critic, and Pamela Paul, previously the editor of The Times’s Book Review, each share one book that, in their ...

Director of Master of Film and Screen Arts and Senior Lecturer, School of Art, Communication and English, University of Sydney Anna Broinowski has a professional connection with both Margo Kingston ...

Canada has seen a boom in political books created with generative artificial intelligence, adding to concerns about how new technologies are affecting the information voters receive during the ...