The Common Core has now been around long enough that it’s all that many of the students we teach in college have known, and ...

Oprah's Book Club is following trend with her October pick, choosing a family and survival drama already in the running for major literary prizes.

Helen DeWitt’s bewildering co-written novel, “Your Name Here,” took almost 20 years to publish, a process that nearly drove ...

Opening with a horrifying terror attack and a young journalist mistaken for his dead father, the long-awaited sequel to ...

Frankfurt Book Fair 2025 Q&A: the Taiwanese comics author/illustrator nownow talks about the ‘universal human experience’ of ...

I was also gripped by Ian McEwan’s What We Can Know (Cape, £22) – a philosophical novel masquerading as a bizarre dystopia of ...

Selma van de Perre, a valiant Jewish secretary who during World War II covertly transported suitcases bulging with cash, ...

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is neither a history of economics, nor a religious history. It borrows from ...

A crate full of chain falls got delivered. It was a glorious crate, made of sanded spruce. I unscrewed some of the planking ...

Former National Security Adviser John Bolton was indicted on Thursday. A federal grand jury in Maryland indicted Bolton, who served ...

Ladd died at her home in California, said Laura Dern, Ladd's daughter with ex-husband Bruce Dern. Both Bruce and Laura are also actors.

Pamela Walker Laird: For years I wondered why popular culture cared about claims that someone was self-made, especially because it’s impossible to succeed without access to social capital — that is, ...