Bill Gates is scrutinized for his investment decisions, reading habits, and tech predictions. One thing we don’t know too much about is what makes his heart flutter, or his eyes well up.
On a December morning in 1989, New Yorkers woke to find a new fixture in their city: A bronze sculpture in the shape of a bull, installed overnight by a rogue artist.
An Arkansas lawmaker wants to ban all books written by deceased historian Howard Zinn, author of the national bestseller A People’s History of the United States.
A rare piece of fiction from one of the world’s most repressive regimes reaches English speakers for the first time this week.
The greatest English writers of modern history: William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, and JK Rowling. So a new survey from the UK would have you believe.
One of the United States’ most popular Donald Trumps is writing a book.
For the Obamas, as with many of their predecessors, life after the White House now includes a book deal.
On April 4, 1984, the fictional hero of George Orwell’s classic novel 1984 begins the taboo practice of keeping a diary. “Down with Big Brother,” Winston Smith writes over and over.
Todd Starnes is a patriot spurned by The New York Times. So he’d have you believe.
The Mall of America, parthenon of consumerism, is looking for the next Joan Didion.
Quakers on Wall Street, the ploys of a lawyer, a friendship pact with a milkman. These aren’t scenes from a 19th-century fever dream; they’re from a long-lost novella by legendary American poet Walt Whitman.
Last year, Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad was the talk of the literary town. It was published weeks head of schedule, Oprah endorsed it, and it won the US National Book Award for fiction. But Whitehead said recently that it was for years an intimidating project, one he was afraid to touch.
The vote was unanimous: The nascent United States of America wanted George Washington as its first president.
Now the sunset Snaps will almost take themselves.
Havana, Cuba
Marcel Proust is remembered for his lengthy, circuitous sentences—and certainly not for the rapid clip of his stride. But 95 years after his death, the French writer is creating excitement for a seconds-long scurry.
Four months ago, five American teenagers casually spray-painted swastikas and the words “white power” and “brown power” onto a small, wooden building in Loudon County, Virginia. For the next twelve months, the US court that tried them will make them feel the full weight of their actions, with a deep literary dive on history and oppression.
Salman Rushdie, once a known social media over-sharer, hasn’t tweeted since November, when he voted for Hillary Clinton in the US presidential election. Perhaps it’s because the normally loquacious author is gearing up to drop a verbose truth bomb.
In the US, two kinds of stories typically exist about Vietnam and its people: jungles and napalm, or protest and politics. A new collection of short stories by Viet Thanh Nguyen will change that.
The sumptuous lips of a 3,000-year-old Egyptian queen’s face, and the plump belly of a 9th-century Mexican baby, are now at your disposal.
Rumor has it that US president Donald Trump doesn’t read books regularly. To change that, this year on Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14, a group of readers from around the country will flood the Executive Office Building with about 800 books that they want their president to read.
On Feb. 2, Kellyanne Conway fabricated a historical event she calls the “Bowling Green Massacre.” Conway, a close counselor to US president Donald Trump, also claimed that former president Barack Obama banned Iraqi refugees for six months as a result. Neither of these are true.
Sigmund Freud made it his business to explore the deep, unseemly caverns of his patients’ minds. Now the father of psychoanalysis’ own personal affects and dirty laundry are on display for the world to see, through a newly digitized collection of his personal writings.
As US president Donald Trump readies himself for a mountain of work, Hillary Clinton is finishing a personal project. The Democratic nominee, who lost to Trump in November, has announced that she’s working on a book of personal essays reflecting on her life, including the 2016 election race.
