Memoir, thriller, historical fiction, and romance, Philly writers are telling a plethora of stories. Here's what we'll be ...

Phillis Wheatley-Peters was kidnapped as a child from West Africa and sold into slavery in Boston. Despite systemic ...

Thirty years ago, Adam McKible, a doctoral student at the University of North Carolina, stretched across a blanket outdoors ...

Blake Gopnik's book foregrounds the democratic yet complicated ethos underpinning Barnes's involvement in Impressionim and ...

Read with Jenna selects the latest novel by Laila Lalami, Barnes & Noble and Reese Witherspoon both highlight Clare Leslie ...

One literary rival said of Ernest Hemingway, “He has no courage, has never crawled out on a limb. He has never been known to ...

“A Matter of Complexion,” “The Moral Circle,” “The Boyhood of Cain,” and “Theory & Practice.” ...

A hundred years after The Great Gatsby shone a light on extravagant Long Island mansions and secret speakeasies, the spirit ...

In this nostalgic and fascinating book, Julie Satow, author of The Plaza, writes about the golden age of three now-vanished ...

It'll stay in the No. 1 spot on the charts for five weeks. 1927: Brooklyn-born jazz singer Adelaide Hall, a prominent figure ...

Happy National Reading Month! The month coincides with the March 2 birthday of author and cartoonist Dr. Seuss who believed reading was a fundamental skill for children. You might be like John ...

Those who bravely did so are heralded with long-overdue recognition in "The Swans of Harlem," a new book by Karen Valby that ...