Leanne Keefer-Bechdel has been in a room with six Benjamin Franklins. In the world of historical reenactment, she said that ...

Jimmy Carter was celebrated Thursday for his personal humility and public service before, during and after his presidency during a funeral at Washington National Cathedral featuring the kind of ...

Any book can spur us toward self-improvement. So can a song, a poem or a movie scene. And so we will change.

3 DEMON COPPERHEAD (Harper Perennial, $21.99). By Barbara Kingsolver. In this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, a boy born in a ...

How a reader's story idea turned into an actual story about the LifeSling and its lifesaving presence on sailboats around the ...

Sujin Witherspoon drafted her debut young adult romantic comedy, "Bingsu for Two," while in college and it's set to release ...

Nickel Boys’ preserves Colson Whitehead’s critically acclaimed narrative style while adding cinematic texture that enhances key details of the book.

Brian C. Black’s “Ike’s Road Trip: How Eisenhower’s 1919 Convoy Paved the Way for the Roads We Travel” (David R. Godine Publisher, 200 pgs., $28.95 hardback) is a nearly forgotten tale of westward ...

The Washington Nationals aren’t spending much money, but they’re getting things done in free agency and in trades. The Nationals dealt reliever Robert Garcia to the Texas Rangers for Nathaniel ...

I wanted to know what books we'd read this year that shed light — from some direction, and in some fashion — on the ...

Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. The winner of this year’s National Book Award in fiction has published ...

Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind. Washington’s failure to foresee Saddam Hussein’s ...