She starts to learn about family events that have long been buried—things even her mother doesn’t know—only when she finds a ...

In “Bibliophobia,” Sarah Chihaya combines criticism and memoir to write about reading’s role in a life’s highs and lows ...

Czesław Miłosz lost his homeland to a Stalinist regime. What have we Americans valued in our own cultural past that might now ...

Sarah Chihaya’s unconventional memoir charts her troubled relationship with the literature that formed her.

Gianni Rodari used puns, topsy-turvyism and zany names to invent stories for children and help children invent their own.

Rumaan Alam’s “Entitlement,” Ian Frazier’s “Paradise Bronx” and Lisa Ko’s “Memory Piece” are among 13 finalists for the Gotham Book Prize ...

Belle da Costa Greene, who was JP Morgan’s librarian, became a lively fixture at Gilded Age mansions, country retreats, ...

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing PLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien ...

David Levering Lewis, a distinguished scholar of American history, finds his own inspiration in the sight of a stained-glass ...