In “Truth and Repair,” her follow-up to 1992’s “Trauma and Recovery,” the psychiatrist Judith Herman argues that healing is more than a “private, individual matter.”
In Dolki Min’s debut novel, “Walking Practice,” an extraterrestrial who crash-lands on Earth shows what it means to feel out of place in one’s body and its surroundings.
In “Playing God,” the journalist Mary Jo McConahay argues that an alliance of extremely conservative bishops and Catholic activists is exerting a profound impact on our national politics.
“Take What You Need,” by Idra Novey, depicts the complicated feelings of a young woman and her former stepmother, against a backdrop of artistic ambition, rural poverty and despair.
In Richard Mirabella’s debut novel, “Brother & Sister Enter the Forest,” the sudden reunion of estranged siblings leads to an overdue reckoning with past trauma.
In Vibhuti Jain’s debut novel, “Our Best Intentions,” a bloody crime scene and a missing suspect prompt a biting examination of race, wealth and privilege in a small suburban community.
The new book by the sociologist and author of “Evicted” examines the persistence of want in the wealthy United States, finding that keeping some citizens poor serves the interests of many.
After chancing upon a 1924 photo of Her Royal Highness Rani Shri Amrit Kaur Sahib in a Mumbai museum, an Italian journalist set out to discover who she was.
Just in time for the Academy Awards, our critic Alexandra Jacobs discusses two recent books on the subject, Michael Schulman’s “Oscar Wars” and Bruce Davis’s “The Academy and the Award.”