A Canadian general recounts his efforts to stop the Rwandan genocide—and then to remain sane.

Having exorcised the demons of her creepy incestuous affair in a best-selling memoir, Kathryn Harrison returns to fiction to explore a creepy sexual fetish, foot-binding.

Steven Pinker aims to make the world safe for genetic scientists. But in debunking the idea of the blank slate, is he fighting the last war?

Michel Houellebecq, France’s bard of sex and anomie, finds an unlikely kindred spirit in H. P. Lovecraft.

NASCAR may now be a virtual byword for the hard-working, God-fearing red-state interior, but auto racing began as very much an upper-crust pastime.

Jennifer Haigh’s first novel, Mrs. Kimble, breathes new life into an old American archetype—the romantic con man.

In his new book, Francis Fukuyama offers evidence that things are bound to improve. It's a beautiful theory -- but has he read the papers lately?

A blue notebook holds the key to the overintricate plot of Paul Auster’s new novel about a blocked writer from—how did you guess?—Brooklyn.

There’s a new Booker Prize in town, open to Americans—and an anxious backlash in response. Meet the new British literary insecurity.