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

Katherine Moore, Senior Editor at National Geographic Kids, spoke to PW about how this new series of workbooks has been updated and reimagined to meet the demands of today's parents, while piquing—and ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth could soon move to fire more than half a dozen generals and flag officers, according to two sources familiar with the matter, part of an effort to purge the departmen ...

Columnist David Allen got “The Two Jakes” back to the LA Central Library within five days, only to learn that like many libraries, LA no longer charges fines.

Vermont’s own Johannes von Trapp, the youngest member of the famous Trapp Family Singers, is an American hunter.

The 40-year-old Downtown library dedicated to poetry and acts of poetry reopened a year ago after a pandemic and a flood.

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

About the club: The Sunny Side Up Inspirational Book Club reads uplifting fiction and sometimes nonfiction that generates discussion among its members. For more information, call the Watson Branch at ...

BEHOLD THE DREAMERS, by Imbolo Mbue, is an entertaining and moving book and likely relatable to anyone who lived in N.Y.C.

Throughout my teaching career at independent schools, which began during the Clinton administration, I’ve also been telling ...

Reading ability among young people is declining, and it is the most vulnerable students who are hardest hit, according to ...

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