The three-day literary festival features foreign and local authors and other cultural figures, discussing a myriad of topics.

A new illustrated release of 'The Goblet of Fire' from Scholastic will hit bookstores this fall, and fans can pre-order the release now.

Renaissance writers and thinkers modified the idea of the monk’s cell to create refuges in which books were the only company.

Washington was part of a new generation of readers with multiple access to printed books, almanacs, lectures and newspapers like never before. He reportedly followed these conversations from scholars ...

The august scholar has two Pulitzer Prizes and a National Humanities Medal. In “The Stained Glass Window,” he seeks to ...

Skiers will know what I’m talking about concerning finding yourself on a black diamond run, going faster than you’ve ever gone before and thinking “I can save it … I ...

Karp, the C.E.O. of the software company Palantir Technologies, and his aide-de-camp Nicholas W. Zamiska, demonstrates how ...

Andrew Garfield, Percival Everett and Attica Locke are among the finalists for the 45th Los Angeles Times Book Prizes.

A reader takes a whimsical view toward the president’s proposal to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.

Billionaires are building luxury getaways to hide from civilization’s collapse. Cool. We’re better off without them ...

Enlightenment and radical politics were two sides of the same ... It maintained a network of traveling lecturers, lending ...