The words of the prophet Jeremiah resounded throughout downtown Reading on Sunday, Sept. 14. The Rev. Calvin Kurtz stood on ...

Denise R. pointed out that when the Kansas City Public Library opened in 1873, it wasn't a grand marble building. It was a single shelf of eight encyclopedias, and borrowing books required either $2 a ...

Chris Cooper, Oliver Hermanus, and Ben Shattuck sit down with Newsweek to discuss the story behind The History of Sound, ...

Last fall, the Atlantic published an article claiming that elite college students are unable to read full books. The article ...

In 1897, Nelson and Lorraine Cornish left Oakland and came to Santa Cruz to live,” writes columnist Ross Eric Gibson. “When ...

New History of the DC Universe #3 shows the post-Crisis fallout as legacy heroes rise, veterans fall, and Barry Allen ...

Thrillers, literary fiction, history, science, memoirs and more: Here are the books you’ve saved most to your reading lists.

A Senate hearing will discuss new data revealing a significant decline in student performance in math and reading, with ...

Oliver Hermanus—whose latest film stars Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor—recommends three books by queer writers who hid their ...

At Metro stops and in parks around the area, readers share their book choices -- and why and how they made them ...

The late Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough told an audience in 2012 that writing history was like working on ...