It’s among the world’s oldest forms of government, but it’s increasingly under threat. These books consider the sources and effects of an alarming global trend.
For his new book, the journalist Ted Conover joined a community of off-gridders in a desolate corner of the West, capturing lives full of anguish and contradiction.
The posthumous publication of a new novel, six years after Dunn’s death, is a chance to celebrate the bawdy originality of the author of the cult hit “Geek Love.”
Jacqueline Bublitz’s debut, “Before You Knew My Name,” follows the parallel tracks of two women in New York City — one vital and vibrant, the other not so much.
In “A Spectre, Haunting,” the British fantasy writer and political activist China Miéville makes the case for why Marx and Engels’s famous pamphlet remains vital today.