In an eye-opening collection, Emily Mester considers why she, and we, seek satisfaction by obsessively choosing, buying and ...

Reporting on the 40th anniversary of the popular pizza literacy program sent one writer on a mozzarella-scented memory trail.

Revelations about a relationship between the author and a girl who was 16 when they met shocked readers, but not scholars of ...

“Never judge a book by its contents,” quipped a wag in a porkpie hat as we both regarded the cover of an aging paperback ...

What makes THE SPOON (Crocodile Books, 40 pp., $14.95, ages 5 to 7), a newly translated picture book by the Argentine writer ...

The poet William Blake, the Romantic era’s ultimate Milton stan — he wrote an epic of his own with Milton as the hero — saw ...

Gabriel García Márquez’s classic novel about the rise and fall of a rural Colombian village as seen through generations of its founding family remains the leading exemplar of magical realism.

A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me,” which follows anthologies that grew out of founding the Well-Read Black Girl ...

The first volume of her frank autobiography is a testament to resilience, chronicling a grim childhood and the brazen path to ...

After publishing “Europe on 5 Dollars a Day” in 1957, he went on to build an empire of guidebooks, package tours, hotels and ...

What was the best TV show, or episode, you watched in 2024? The best movie? Your favorite book of the year? There are five ...

Serious reading — sitting down in a quiet place, undisturbed, for a few hours with a text like “Walden” — takes students away ...