In historian Robin Bernstein's new book "Freeman's Challenge," raising questions of the for-profit prison industry ...

Employees at stores like Montgomery & Taggert, Connecticut’s first romance-only bookstore recommend authors such as Krystal ...

DNA study shows the deadly potato blight came from South America.

The latest in a line of Victoriana ‘queer’ stories leaves Stuart Kelly wondering if it is anything more than an imaginative ...

When it comes to one of the most infamous disasters in Irish history, there's still more to be learned, including exactly ...

Amitav Ghosh’s new collection of non-fiction, ‘Wild Fictions’, is a jumble of bewilderingly disparate pieces, marred by ...

Back home in Washington, D.C., The New Yorker writer Kyle Chayka and his wife, Jess, cook “constantly and elaborately,” he says. (Their home is conveniently sandwiched between ...

A popular Victorian-era Valentine Day’s card. Valentine Card by Jonathan King,1860-1880, London Museum., CC BY When we think ...

Books newsletter: screen deals; UL Creative Writing Festival; Ennis Book Club Festival; Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction; ILF ...

Millions of Xs will be crossed at the bottom of Valentines cards today. Here's how one simple letter came to represent love ...

Everett pulls off a masterly linguistic confection, in which enslaved people use Black English only as a wary affectation.

The Warner Free Lecture will be in Volunteers Hall Friday, Feb. 21, at 7 p.m. with Christina Thompson, who will talk about ...