Over the past two decades, Nick Paumgarten has become one of The New Yorker’s most admired staff writers. His long-awaited first book, a memoir, uses his consuming lifelong obsess…

As workers and as parents, we all care deeply about how we must prepare ourselves and our children for fulfilling careers at a time when the changing nature of labor is opaque. In…

The Father Shore is a sweeping novel about fathers and sons, memory and race, and the dangerous fictions that shape us--inspired by the true story of Eugene Marais, one of history…