B ooks are about to become a little less “Spellbinding!”, “Stunning!” and “Compelling!” Fewer still will offer a “tour de ...

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What makes us human? For Regina VanScoy, the line between animal and human can be found in the use of our amazing hands.

In a speech given to the House of Commons in 1948, Winston Churchill issued — the hot breath of war still blowing on the neck of Europe — a warning to the world: “Those who fail to learn from history ...

An announcement from Simon & Schuster’s publisher left the literary community wondering whether blurbs, the little snippets ...

For the novelist Rebecca Makkai, writing blurbs had become nearly a full-time job. She explains why blurbs matter — and why ...

The Art of Winning' chronicles Belichick's historic legacy as head coach of the New England Patriots, with advice for life beyond football.

The Oilers have won at least 7 games in 7 of Knoblauch’s 11 full segments to date, and recorded a .700 points percentage in ...

Ultimately, Bibliophobia is a book of paradoxes. It’s a profoundly satisfying book about the maddening inadequacy of books. A ...

At the Grolier Club, in midtown, a collection of imaginary volumes—the play within “Hamlet,” Hemingway’s lost first novel—are ...

The Boston Public Library's "Black Is..." annual booklist includes “The Message,” a nonfiction essay book and travelogue by activist-writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, memoirs by Whoopi Goldberg and RuPaul, and ...

How the University of Miami’s Special Collections library came to possess one of its rarest, most valuable works — three volumes of engravings of roses commissioned by Empress Josephine Bonaparte of ...