A new biography of Charles W. Chesnutt, by Tess Chakkalakal, explains the friendships and tensions he had with his white ...

William E. Leuchtenburg, one of the nation’s preeminent historians and the leading scholar on President Franklin D. Roosevelt ...

William E. Leuchtenburg, a leading scholar of Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Depression, has died at age 102.

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington garnered national headlines for rebuking President Donald ...

Yet Washington was aware that politics is perception — including the perception of his personal finances. As the national ...

The first in a planned trilogy of books about his life, Source Code covers Gates' remarkable childhood in Seattle, his brief ...

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Charge up your e-reader and renew your library card in time for February’s newest books — narratives about empresses, spies and struggling families that inform; moving tales of love and ...

NEW YORK — Rumaan Alam’s “Entitlement,” Ian Frazier’s “Paradise Bronx” and Lisa Ko’s “Memory Piece” are among 14 finalists for the Gotham Book Prize, a $50,000 award for ...

The publishing year may have had a gentle start last month, but February has some real gems heading our way. There are ...

The Academy Award-nominated actor is under fire for a series of tweets that resurfaced Thursday, expressing her views on topics such as race and religion. Read our review of The Brutalist, which ...

"Farmer George" constructed model farms at Windsor Castle, sanctioned exploratory voyages to the Pacific Ocean, and collected model ships and coins. His vast collection of books and manuscripts ...