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A Booker-winning novel; a rocking essay collection.

In “The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto,” Benjamin Wallace is hot on the trail of the person — or people — behind a financial revolution.

As two recent books show, free speech protections were forged a century ago by people who fought for the rights of activists.

“The Snares,” by Rav Grewal-Kök, examines the perils and moral quandaries of clandestine service.

Our columnist reviews this month’s releases.

This Korean novel by the 2024 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature turns a pet-sitting mission into a haunting reflection on grief and memory.

Biographers took an account of a scuffle in “Tender Is the Night” as a record of a real-life event. But uncovered documents suggest Fitzgerald may have behaved worse than he wrote.

A new book collects the Paper Magazine co-founder Kim Hastreiter’s most treasured belongings, and friends.

The author of “The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi” recommends fantastical tales grounded in real history.

Missing for decades from the Anglophile version of its origin story was another great visual narrative tradition, of the East.