Playing the cello saved Anita Lasker’s life. Deported to the concentration camp at Auschwitz in December 1943, aged 18, she, like all its prisoners, found her head being shaved, her clothes stripped ...

From the streets of Harlem to Vietnam to Hollywood, these stories correct the record and spotlight lesser-known heroes for Women's History Month.

From memoirs to sci-fi and historical fiction, we've rounded up our favorite books that feature strong Black women.

Linguist and Columbia University professor John McWhorter is a podcast host, the author of 20 books, and a contributing ...

Reading offers a break from work and caring for other people and it can also be a way to gain personal insights.

A writer known for chronicling both the glamour and corruption of Hollywood and publishing biographies about figures as beloved as Bob Dylan and as infamous as serial killer Randy Kraft died last week ...

Century, an imprint of Penguin Random House, has triumphed in an eight-way auction for a “full-throttle” guide to cars from ...

In an interview, historian and Sahitya Akademi winner A.R Venkatachalapathy talks about his award-winning work, his books and ...

The National Book Critics Circle announced the winners of their prestigious literary award during their annual ceremony on ...

A posthumous memoir by the Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, which detailed his fight against autocracy and ...

A posthumous memoir by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Hisham Matar's novel “My Friends” and a poetry collection by Anne Carson were among the winners Thursday night of the 50th annual ...

Never in doubt of his own abilities, Edgar Allan Poe pursued extremes in literature and in life.