NEW YORK (AP) — Two giants of the women’s rights movement, Gloria Steinem and Nobel laureate Leymah Gbowee, have teamed up ...

1 THE EMPEROR OF GLADNESS (Penguin Press, $30). By Ocean Vuong. A transformative friendship develops between an elderly widow ...

The Apostrophe Protection Society is going along very strongly; perhaps we need a Semicolon Supporting Society?

Richard Bausch, who edited the most recent edition of The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, is the award-winning author of ...

The Chicago Sun-Times is attracting a lot of attention — or more accurately, scorn — for publishing a summer reading list, ...

Public school enrollment for the current school year totaled 5,806,221 students, a decrease of 31,469 or 0.54% from the prior ...

‘My books are simply autobiographies,’ Mark Twain once confessed. True of most American writers, it seems especially true of a man who, as Ron Powers argues in this magisterial biography, ‘found a ...