Parker was 35 when she wrote that. Old age seemed to come on earlier back in the day. I’m thinking especially of poor Edward ...

Maureen Corrigan, book critic for NPR's Fresh Air, and Gilbert Cruz, editor of The New York Times Book Review, recap their ...

The written word has a lot to answer for. From the moment Johannes Gutenberg introduced his marvellous printing press ...

Once the holidays are over, you may look around you at a floor full of spent wrapping paper and sad ribbons and wonder, “What’s next?” A whole new year, that’s what, and a dozen great books worthy of ...

In “Embers of the Hands,” the historian Eleanor Barraclough looks beyond the soap-opera sagas to those lost in the cracks of ...

It’s a sequel of sorts to her 1939 book “Moses, Man of the Mountain” and focuses on the Judean king Herod the Great. In the New Testament, he’s portrayed as a slaughterer of innocents ...

From a submarine survival adventure during World War II to an exploration of the dark side of a Catholic convent on the Irish ...

Our writer shares six of the best audiobook performances of the year, including the narration of "James," "Creation Lake," ...

This year's bumper crop of great music books includes titles on Joni MItchell, Bikini Kill's Kathleen Hanna, the Rolling ...

These are some of the questions explored by Nobel Prize winning scientist Venki Ramakrishnan in Why We Die: The New Science ...