“We Do Not Part” explores Korea’s buried past and the agony of silence.

1 MARTYR! (Vintage, $18). By Kaveh Akbar. A man tries to understand his tendency toward sadness and self-sabotage by writing ...

Self-serving energy policies cloaked in high-minded rhetoric are hurting the world’s poor.

In “The Sun Won’t Come Out Tomorrow,” Kristen Martin shows that orphanhood is neither a trope nor a metaphor.

Richard Conniff is the author of “Ending Epidemics: A History of Escape From Contagion.” Lawrence O. Gostin is a law ...