Adam Szetela depicts a publishing world beset by vicious pile-ons in response to transgressions and abject apologies.

Barney the purple dinosaur was everywhere in the 1990s and aughts, courtesy of the children’s TV series Barney & Friends.

Before America ever laughed at Don Knotts, fear had already shaped him. Long before Barney Fife trembled his way into ...

Georges Borchardt, a renowned literary agent, has died at 97. He helped introduce U.S. readers to Nobel laureates like Elie Wiesel and Samuel Beckett.

Bear-illiant names for teddy bears, polar bears, brown bears and more!

Few outside of his family have ever heard of Vic Maitland, whom they believe came up with one of sports' most distinctive sartorial items.

The follow-up to That! Feels Good! arrives on April 10 ...

Iowa readers weigh in on ICE actions and protests in Minnesota, plus local policy questions, in letters published Jan. 12-18, ...

When it comes to the proletariat taking matters into their own hands, the British working class does not have many ...

When it comes to the proletariat taking matters into their own hands, the British working class does not have many spectacular victories to celebrate. There are glorious defeats of course, eg the ...

Poet Phyllis Wheatley, born in 1753, was freed on this day in 1773. Kidnapped in Africa and sold as a slave when she was only ...

The 200th anniversary of the modern railway in 2005 also coincided with 25 years of the National Rail website. The internet ...