The author of “Housekeeping,” “Gilead,” and, now, “Jack” looks to history not just for the origins of America’s ailments but for their remedy, too.

The inventor did not look for problems in need of solutions; he looked for solutions in need of modification.

Activists and preservationists are changing the kinds of places that are protected—and what it means to preserve them.

A century after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, it’s worth remembering why suffragists had to fight so hard, and who was fighting against them.

A new Broadway adaptation of Harper Lee’s novel prompts a reconsideration of her beloved hero.

After centuries of censure, four new books reconsider the political power of female rage.

Hurston spent years turning an account of the transatlantic slave trade into a book. After languishing for nearly nine decades, the manuscript has finally been published.

The life and legacy of the Catholic writer and activist, who some hope will be made a saint.