This deliciously sardonic little tuner is about a real-life outlaw, a man vividly named Elmer McCurdy, shot dead by a sheriff ...

The Pope, famous—perhaps foremost—for his insistence on simplicity and aversion to clerical glitz, wanted to be buried not at ...

I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid ...

At the beginning of last January, an important book was published by the American publishing house Clarity Press, authored by Dan Steinbock, an American ...

Most consumers store fruits and vegetables in refrigerators, where most varieties stay fresh for several weeks to over a ...

In Dea Kulumbegashvili’s film, Ia Sukhitashvili plays a Georgian obstetrician who views a woman’s right to choose as an ...

Novelist Jay McInerney captured the zeitgeist of New York a generation ago—and he’s still at it. The epitaph on John O’Hara’s ...

In Kate Messner’s novel, a hiking challenge in the Adirondacks offers a way for a teenage boy to make up for an act of ...

In May, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “The Safekeep,” Yael van der Wouden’s novel about a woman wrapped up ...

As Tomie dePaola’s classic approaches a milestone birthday, Big Anthony is long overdue for a bit of sympathy.

A book,” a 20-year-old Franz Kafka wrote to his friend Oskar Pollack in 1904, “must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.” It is a quintessential Kafka image. I see an ice-axe, the sharpened point ...

Hmong American Author, Kao Kalia Yang, took home three awards this year - a new record - for Youth Literature, Middle Grade ...