The philosopher and biographer analyzes works of life-writing that straddle fact and fiction, and what makes them art.

A new book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Greg Grandin offers a fresh account of the region as an incubator of ...

These books confront readers with the recent past and distant future, bring them to southeastern Africa and an alternative Japan, and bedeck their pages with subversive cartoons and lush landscapes.

Retro clocks tick away the hours just as they did decades ago, their mechanisms representing a time before planned obsolescence became standard practice. These items bring something to a home that no ...

Fans of BTS' RM, aka Kim Nam-joon, have raised concerns after a photo allegedly showing the living conditions at his military ...

Why did he run for reelection knowing that he would have been 82 when he started his second term, and 86 when it ended? In his new book, Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the ...

Self-Help” by Lorrie Moore Lorrie Moore’s short story collection “Self-Help” made me truly appreciate the art of prose.

That’s Aunt Margaret’s Antique Mall in Newark, Delaware—a brick-faced wonderland of yesteryear that’s been quietly amassing treasures while you’ve been busy doom-scrolling through your phone. Let me ...

In 2023, Luke Combs released a smash cover of her 1988 debut single, “Fast Car,” and the two performed a deeply stirring duet at last year’s Grammys. Still, Chapman has remained resolutely ...

“In world where book covers can be deceiving,” wrote Sanziana-Dana, “it’s very easy to mistake a book that is age appropriate for younger readers versus one that is not.” Busayo agrees ...

Here, we look at ten renowned books that originally had drastically different endings—often darker, more philosophical, or controversial—until editorial intervention reshaped them into the versions we ...