The Castle of Otranto is c onsidered the first supernatural English novel and also the first gothic novel. It describes ...

Peter Green, who has died in Iowa City aged 99, spent the second half of his life in America as a classical scholar, notably ...

Willi Frischauer—Houghfon Mifflin ($3.50). Dachau concentration camp's "last remaining incinerator of original Nazi ...

In preparation for Banned Books Week (September 22-28, 2024), the American Library Association released preliminary data documenting attempts to censor books and materials in public, school, and ...

The author of the classic graphic novel ‘Black Hole’ returns with his most pensive, painfully revealing work yet ...

Garth Greenwell’s new novel unfolds over the nearly two weeks of his hospitalization. It had me in its grip from start to ...

A dozen or so books are arranged neatly on a stand in the Central Spokane Public Library, waiting for an interested library ...

September marks the 50th anniversary of “The Power Broker,” Robert Caro’s biography of Robert Moses. Leah Greenblatt, an ...

The general election is coming up in November. Two books, written within the past 10years, might help explain what is going ...

Novels by Karl Ove Knausgaard and Jean Hanff Korelitz; nonfiction by Ina Garten, Alexei Navalny and Ta-Nehisi Coates; Sapphic ...

Biblical texts shaped the development of Western civilization and steadily made advances into societies formerly resistant to ...

Written by his daughter, this biography humanises the towering cultural figure that was Ebrahim Alkazi ...