New book claims Shakespeare was actually Emilia Bassano, a dark-skinned Jewish woman poet. Author argues the famous playwright's identity has been wrong.

Historian Peter Mancall says New English Canaan is “not very long” and “not very well written,” but holds immense value in what it says about the nation’s founding. Illustration by Meilan Solly / ...

Jujutsu Kaisen may not be in season at the moment, but that isn’t stopping the series from making headlines. Right now, the manga is working through one of its most ambitious arcs yet, and the Culling ...

Picture this: you’re sitting at your desk, trying to force your brain to figure out what the heck a “reduced relative clause” is all the while your sibling is watching the latest Jujutsu Kaisen ...

My thanks for one of your wonderful book reviews. On your pages, I find books that other, more “trendy” reviewers largely ignore. This one, “The Wordhord” by Hana Videen, reviewed by Henry Hitchings ...

The growth of English-language book sales in continental Europe is on the rise, fueled by interest generated on TikTok and fed in large part by Amazon. This has been cutting into local sales in some ...

Willie Nelson has announced a new book called Me and Paul: Untold Tales of a Fabled Friendship, arriving September 20 via Harper Horizon. The book chronicles Nelson’s longtime friendship with Paul ...

“We do one book after state testing, and we did ‘The Great Gatsby.’ … A lot of kids had not read a novel in class before.” — Laura Henry, 10th-grade English teacher near Houston “My son in 9th grade ...

"It's a beautiful love letter to nature," Witherspoon said of the milestone pick, Margaret Renkl's "The Comfort of Crows" Taylor Hill/Getty; Spiegel & Grau Reese Witherspoon is honoring an important ...

About a decade ago, when I was an editor at The New York Times Book Review, we left the name of the reviewer off a cover review. The book’s title and author’s name were there (“Bismarck: A Life,” by ...

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