The book that inspired today’s playlist, the cultural critic Lucy Sante’s “I Heard Her Call My Name,” isn’t about music per se. As its subtitle attests, it is mostly “a memoir of transition,” centered ...

Seattle satirist Maria Semple’s breakthrough novel is a flurry of contemporary, epistolary wit. Passive aggressive e-mail ...

While the new administration takes aim at DEI initiatives, there’s one place where diversity is alive and well: Children’s literature. At a time when book bans are raging and the federal government is ...

Years later, The Black Lives Matter movement inspired Lee to write the children's book she wanted so badly growing up. She recruited her best friend Megan Barr to hand paint the illustrations, and ...

A young mother who has been pregnant 11 times and lost seven babies in the space of seven years has said there are ways to ...

IT was the moment Lindsey Burrow knew that her rugby hero husband had succumbed to the disease that left him a prisoner in ...

For the 40th anniversary of ‘Vision Quest,’ Matthew Modine looks back on his first starring role and sharing a trailer with ...

“In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn; color your hair; watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for ...