Somewhere in Terre Haute, a crow will perch on the same building that bird’s father once sat upon. And his grandfather before ...
The high school where Brian De Palma brought Stephen King’s “Carrie” to life, Will Rogers’ ranch house, and a motel owned by ...
On the stir around Dean Kissick's article "The Painted Protest" in 'Harper's' and the likely end of the "radlib" era of ...
Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, “addressed to the inhabitants of America,” was a 47-page dynamo presenting the recently ...
Every January 1 in the Books department, we like to make an extra toast for a concurrent holiday: Public Domain Day.
REBECCA FASMAN, the curator of the Kinsey Institute, describing contents of one of the daily planners of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, who died in July. The institute is packing away huge volumes of items that ...
Three years after her death, I find myself having grown tired of Joan Didion. I am tired of the books about her and the ...
It is official: 2024 was the hottest year since 1850, around the time scientists began keeping reliable records of Earth's surface temperatures.