A new book by the Harvard scholar Stephen Greenblatt contends that the innovative dramatist Christopher Marlowe was the ...

The German writer Michael Lentz gives it a shot in “Schattenfroh,” stretching the limits of fiction in the process.

Need a new picture book for storytime? Scholastic Books has released Millie Fleur Saves the Night, which encourages kid ...

PHOENIX, AZ - February 29: General Manager Billy Beane of the Oakland Athletics stands in the clubhouse during a spring training workout at Papago Park on February 29, 2012 in Phoenix, Arizona. (Photo ...

In his 2023 book The Art Thief, author Michael Finkel crucially observed (my book review here) that “art is the result of facing almost no survival pressure of all.” So true, and it raises an exciting ...

The author presents evidence that the Turki Shahis, who held the strategic “Gate of India”, were not merely predecessors to ...

Slate is launching a new monthly book review that will take over its home page the first weekend of every month. In other words, there’s not exactly a dearth of book coverage available online, though ...

Amazon famously started as an online bookstore. In the three decades since, it has disrupted how people buy, read, and review books through steps like undercutting local bookstore prices, launching ...