One of my favorite National Parks Road Trip itineraries is the Majestic Mountain Loop. This three-park (Sequoia, Kings C ...

BC: Julius Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey near the city of Dyrrachium (in what is now Albania).

Mystery novelist Martin Cruz Smith, known for such Arkady Renko thrillers as “Gorky Park,” has died at age 82.

Patriarchy is alive and well throughout the world. But the English-language media flatters itself by one-sidedly portraying ...

"When we were young, he encouraged us to read by giving us required readings," his son, Antonio "Tonet" Jose, recently shared ...

Reviews, essays, best sellers and children's books coverage from The New York Times Book Review.

A San Francisco bookstore will no longer carry the "Harry Potter" series due to author J.K. Rowling's political actions toward excluding transgender women from gendered spaces.

El Akkad writes, “It is pointless, even, to make the obvious analogies, to imagine the response had almost any other country ...

Mohammed El-Kurd is a writer and poet from Jerusalem, occupied Palestine, currently serving as The Nation's first-ever Palestine Correspondent. He is the author of RIFQA (Haymarket) and the ...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of parents seeking to opt their children out of public school instruction that conflicts with sincerely held religious beliefs.

A bookstore in San Francisco announced earlier this month that it will no longer sell titles by J.K. Rowling, including her popular “Harry Potter” series, due to the author’s anti ...