At a perilous American moment, the Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro explains why he wanted to read The Turner Diaries.

If anyone still doubts what Nicholas Hoult can do on screen, they need to see him in The Order. Hoult becomes Bob Mathews, who led a violent white supremacist gang during the early eighties.

Robert Kirkman and Jay Bonansinga, read by Fred Berman. Macmillan Audio, unabridged, eight CDs, 10 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-4272-2600-6 Fred Berman’s narration brings out the horrors—those ...

Set among divinity school professors unsure of just what they believe, Robert P. Baird’s satirical novel, “The Nimbus,” strains for the heavenly.