Drawn from her previously unpublished reflections on sessions with a therapist, “Notes to John” is at once slightly sordid ...

In 'Atavists,' Lydia Millet's latest collection of short stories, Southern California denizens grapple with an endangered ...

A portrait of life at a fast-food restaurant shows that there’s both dignity and drudgery in all kinds of labor.

Peggy Shumaker, a stalwart supporter of Alaska writers and the larger arts community, is a professor emerita from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a former Alaska writer laureate. Author of nine ...

Culture editor Alison Flood rounds up the book club’s thoughts on our latest read, the weird and wild Dengue Boy by Michel Nieva. Warning: spoilers ahead ...

In this short essay, Walter Metz uses Walter Benjamin’s essay, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction as a ...

(Henry Holt via AP) When Lytton Strachey set out to write “Eminent Victorians” in 1918, he sought to enliven the stuffy ...

Katie Kitamura’s thrilling new novel, “Audition,” examines the performances we put on for others — and exposes the shams that ...

In the book I published last year, Who’s Afraid of Gender?, I noted that the campaign against ‘gender ideology’ was very late to gain ground in the US. The term itself was coined by the Vatican back ...

Aquarter of the way through this century, regime change has become a canonical term. It signifies the overthrow, typically but not exclusively by the United States, of governments around the world ...

We are thrilled to be welcoming Alton Brown to Village Books for a book signing on the ... a debut collection of personal essays defined by his flair, wit, and insight. From cameraman to chef ...

Of all wars, none are quite so catastrophic as civil wars. They arise from the ugliest of disagreements, they spill into the most reprehensible of behaviors, and they seem never to have a distinct ...