In his 100th year, there's a danger in celebrating Baldwin without recognizing his true radicalism.

Not everyone has the available time or energy to do deep reading. But if you’re going to make confident public pronouncements on matters that require a lot of research, books will help you avoid dangerous foolishness.

Move over cyberpunk. Make way for solarpunk, the defiant ecosocialist answer to dystopian doomerism.

Most political poetry is not good. But can it ever be? Yes!

When Victor Hugo wrote Les Misérables, he hoped that “books of this kind may serve some purpose.” And they do. The 19th century social novels of Hugo and Émile Zola remain insightful on issues of labor and economic injustice in our own time.

Books are where the knowledge is. A flourishing democracy depends on a culture that cares about and talks about books.

Vulnerable women in recovery deserve better than books written by authors peddling expensive products and services and promoting consumption instead of evidence-based treatments.

When you are a famous author, you can release a thousand-page novel filled with vicious parodies of your Twitter enemies. But should you?