Happily, there are a host of witty, satirical and downright hilarious books out there, waiting to put a smile back on our faces. From comic novels and memoirs, to essays and poetry, humour has filled ...

In his new book, “In Search of an Open Mind,” Columbia’s president emeritus offers a collection of his speeches, articles, ...

USC professor Percival Everett wins the National Book Award for Fiction for 'James,' a retelling of 'Huckleberry Finn' from ...

Eliza Clark’s first two novels were greeted as dark, cruel delights, but the tales in She’s Always Hungry are laborious and flat ...

She mulls how women were rejected entry into university ... for Dummies was published. Danger of a single story Why do we ...

Of the four legs of the geek table that McAfee identifies (speed, ownership, science and openness), our biggest shortfall is speed. While some universities are the exception that proves the rule (ASU, ...

Glen and Cathy Miranker, devotees of the UVA-based Rare Book School, have endowed a permanent curator position.

Jessica S. Kruger, clinical associate professor of community health and health behavior in the School of Public Health and Health Professions, is one of the three main co-authors on the seventh ...

Serious reading — sitting down in a quiet place, undisturbed, for a few hours with a text like “Walden” — takes students away ...

who co-authored the book with Baruch Lev, Philip Bardes Professor Emeritus of Accounting and Finance at the New York University Stern School of Business. The authors compiled more than 60 years of ...

Former Chicago Bulls forward Bob Love, a three-time All-Star who spent 11 years in the NBA, has died. He was 81.

Back then, jazz was only good for one thing: ‘lo-fi radio for study’ videos on YouTube, with an animated cafe and soft ...