In one instance, she curiously opened a book. Immediately ... In her 1952 "My Day" column, Eleanor Roosevelt lamented an instance in which a school in Englewood, New Jersey, cancelled an ...

As the motor-mouthed, elastic-bodied frontman of the J. Geils Band (and later solo career), Peter Wolf was a ball of energy. And as a former DJ, the “Woofa with the Goofa” often told stories to ...

Events like this help the nonprofit Friends group raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for Collier County’s public libraries.

Excommunication, hanging, and being cooked in a frying pan are just some of the punishments to dissuade potential book thieves collected in Oxford medievalist Baker’s phenomenal debut anthology.

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In 1948, representatives from the 50 member states of the United Nations came together, with Eleanor Roosevelt (First Lady of the United States 1933-1945) chairing the Human Rights Commission, to ...

The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum will host a conversation and book signing, “Remember the First Ladies: The Legacies of America’s ...

The new Jack Quaid action movie Novocaine and the spy thriller Black Bag starring Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender highlight this weekend’s new releases. Ben Affleck is doubling down on his ...

A new book by the journalist Brian Goldstone puts a spotlight on people who have jobs but no homes, whose struggles remain largely invisible. David Sheff’s new biography convincingly argues for ...

QUINCY — Quincy University added more than 420 books to its collection — all from the Mark Twain Collection from Fontbonne University in Clayton, Mo. Fontbonne University announced in March ...

Reading picks from Book Review editors, guaranteed to suit any mood. By The New York Times Books Staff A posthumous Joan Didion book, Emily Henry’s latest romance novel, Tina Knowles’s ...

When it came to telling Ono’s story, Sheff found himself at loggerheads over the ethics of authoring her biography ... In some of the book’s finest moments, Sheff explores her creative ...