In “The Revolutionary Self,” the historian Lynn Hunt explores the way 18th-century culture transformed our sense of power in ...

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Schlink is best known in the United States for his 1997 novel “The Reader,” or the 2008 film of the same title.

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Belle da Costa Greene, the first director of the Morgan Library, was a Black woman who passed as white in the early 20th ...

In Memorial Days, Geraldine Brooks processes the sudden death of her husband of 35 years, and shares how other cultures make ...

If you’re confused by a turn of phrase in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” or a startling metaphor in Kafka’s “Metamorphosis,” just ask the book to explain itself, and it will.

The adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s “Princess and the Pea” is one of four works in the lovely current “Golden Hour.” ...

“Regardless of what people say, obviously these books are touching people in some way. It’s bringing joy. And for me, that’s what matters most.” When sex in books is about just more than ...

The book “ Gus: A Birds Life, in His Own Words ” is a heartwarming, funny love story about how a psychologist who initially ...

I have just finished reading the latest book by a man with gray hair, almost snow white, perhaps snow with slightly dirty car ...

Two of the greatest rock bands of all time are the subjects of new documentaries which take very different approaches into ...