Books

Martin Amis on nuclear war, the difference between Brexit and Trump, and why all writers really do think about posterity

Surprisingly, the biggest threat to Kate Harris and her cycling partner was traffic—not bad weather or bad people

Historian and author Mark A. Lause contends the cowboys of the mythic American West were more diverse—and downtrodden—than we realize

The one-time enfant terrible of British literature talks about information overload and how emotion rules the political sphere

Two intense works of history, a wrenching account of contemporary racism, and two intimate memoirs make for wide-ranging reading

The author, Dan Mallory, has packed his love of classic mysteries and film noir—and his own experience of depression—into a stellar debut

Why finding the middle ground between purely secular materialism and crazy religious fanaticism has never been more important

Randy Boyagoda’s picks for CanLit to curl up with this winter

We’ve surveyed the many books on the U.S. president so you don’t have to

Miranda Kaufmann’s discoveries are part of the larger story of the first globalization in English history