In “The Age of Choice,” Sophia Rosenfeld questions whether choosing — what to buy, whom to vote for — is actually worth it.

A novelist and short-story writer, she devoted years to a nonfiction project examining of the lives of two eccentric authors ...

And, of course, escapism is a supply-and-demand business. As the world requires more of the people in it, it also offers more ...

This National Geographic book is much more than a coffee table tome, although you could easily spend hours just poring over the photographs: black-and-white reproductions from Shackleton’s voyage, and ...

In “Open Socrates,” Agnes Callard argues for a way of being that sounds a lot like her own.