Bob Woodward offers a grim portrait of a presidential administration that seems increasingly unhinged.

How one man made us think differently about religion, violence and desire

The stories of Machado de Assis let us imagine our way into familiar perspectives and situations from unexpected vantages that enlarge and transform our sense of what is and what can be in this life, and the next.

As wild and wonderful as Marvel Comics characters’ superpowers might be, their back stories are always grounded in reality.

And reading poetry, like the books in our 2018 poetry review, can be a great way to not make perfect sense of a thing, but to just be with a thing.

Andre Dubus III is the author of House of Sand and Fog and a memoir, Townie. A complete collection of his father’s short stories has just been published.