The land of Goethe is fond of fiction, of course, which makes up 31.9 percent of total book sales. But it is non-fiction that generates the most conversation—and the most controversy.

The origins and effects of the Age of Self-Exposure.

The Clinton-Trump battle puts an American expat in the hot seat, and has him dreaming of how the United States could be more like Europe.

Why American politicians so enthusiastically reveal their personal lives to us—and why they should knock it off.

Our modern cornucopia of consumer goods is supposed to make us happier, but it doesn't. Here's why.

The question of authenticity has occupied some of the subtlest minds of the last century. Andrew Potter thinks the whole effort is a hoax.