Contrary to the experience of the Baudelaire children in Lemony Snicket’s series of popular books, the unnamed protagonist of ...

A legal document in a locked red box led me to discover an unlikely connection with the Holy Grail of rare books.

Much of Han Kang’s fiction traces the impact of the violence inflicted on ordinary lives by authoritarians and the burden of ...

My Sleepy Hollow Show & Tell/Legend of Sleepy Hollow book release in disguise was a spectacular success, in part thanks to ...

Several years ago, Debra Bruno, a D.C.-based journalist, began researching her family’s past. She quickly realized that she ...

Rahatkar’s appointment, made under Section 3 of the National Commission for Women Act, 1990, will last for a period of three years or until she reaches the age of 65, whichever comes first ...

Brdiget Cleary, a 28-year-old wife from Tipperary, was burned to death in 1895. She is considered the "last witch burned in ...

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.” By this, he was saying that the quotations in such ...

An 1861 law banning fortune telling for money remains on the books in Pennsylvania, and is affecting modern-day tarot readers ...

On Freedom to Read Community Day of Action, leaders of the NYC library system explain why we must protect the right to read.

In collecting my classmates’ stories, I’ve become more attuned to the tricks of memory, the way it both binds and divides us.

The Enoch Pratt Free Library saw more than 8,000 materials checked out on an average day and 1.192 million visits, according ...