In “Jane Austen’s Bookshelf,” a rare-book collector sets out to “investigate” a group of overlooked female writers.

Alba de Céspedes’s book, a coming-of-age novel following eight young women in Rome, is perfect for fans of Elena Ferrante. “Blood on Satan’s Claw,” by Robert Wynne-Simmons, is a novel by ...

There's a specific joy to reading a graphic novel. It lets you experience a complete story in much less time that it would typically take to read a conventional novel, but it gets your imagination ...

inspired by Gill Hornby's 2020 novel of the same name. The series delves into the mystery surrounding why Cassandra Austen (played by Keeley Hawes) destroyed her sister Jane's (Patsy Ferran ...

Conjoined twins occur when identical twins have fused bodies before they are born. This condition has also been known as "Siamese twins," named after the first world-recognized set of conjoined twins ...

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. 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.

What does it mean to be a reader in Jane Austen’s novels? And what does it mean to read them? Susan Allen Ford, longtime editor of the Jane Austen Society of North America’s journals, confesses to ...

The backstory itself feels like something from a Jane Austen novel; Cassandra is engaged to Tom (Fowle) and shortly after their engagement he goes away for a year and sadly doesn’t return.

In her novel "Tartufo" (Grand Central Publishing), Kira Jane Buxton (the author of "Hollow Kingdom" and "Feral Creatures") captures the comedy of truffle-mania in a tiny Tuscan village ...

My 16-year-old daughter had been going through an angsty/moody phase for a few months now and it's getting unbearable. She refuses to eat dinner with my husband and I and her younger siblings. And ...

Two late 19th-century novels by Ingersoll Lockwood, Baron Trump’s Marvelous Underground Journey and The Last President, have sparked conspiracy theories linking them to Donald Trump. Viral TikTok ...

The U.S. has seen a wave of book banning attempts in recent years, data shows. The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has announced that it is rescinding all past guidance ...