Brian Bethune

Q&A: Elizabeth Hay’s new book bravely reckons with sibling tensions and filial love as she grapples with being a caregiver for her aging parents

The Giller jury says its 12 long-listed books ’sing about the erased, the immigrants, the oppressed, the survivors, the entitled’

Nobel laureate Dr. Eric Kandel says brain imaging shows talk therapy can change brain biology—and even fight depression

Mike Pence shares an affinity for the ancient word with an eccentric cast of characters

Pretending the world isn’t bleak feeds the mania for unreal hope that exists within American culture, argues Chris Hedges

In his latest novel, the award-winning Hage revisits his birthplace in the midst of conflict

Toews’s fictional account of Mennonite women’s response to a four-year rampage of sexual assault in a remote colony in Bolivia may be her finest work yet

Photojournalist John Moore captures the many facets of the U.S.-Mexico border—from violence to train-top rides to detention

The former New York Times writer, reviled by Jonathan Franzen and referenced by J.K. Rowling and Sex and the City, says postmodernism gave birth to Trump

Class sleepovers, transit trips without an adult, early lessons with fire. Sara Zaske’s ’Achtung Baby’ explores the German approach to parenting.