In “Funny Because It’s True,” Christine Wenc offers an idiosyncratic history of The Onion, the publication that made the ...

The artist’s seemingly simple pen strokes were capable of capturing both the gravity and the absurdity of peacetime and war.

Hello reader who is also a reader, and welcome back to Booked For The Week - our regular Sunday chat with a selection of cool ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

There are few writers who have as devoted a following as celebrated novelist Jane Austen. But is she really the “first” great English female author?

Best known as the author of the moving, melancholy play Dancing At Lughnasa, Brian Friel’s funny, heartbreaking stories are ...

Canada Reads 2025 will take place March 17-20. This year, the great Canadian book debate is looking for one book to change ...

A handful of those authors are local, like Richard Grant. Originally from London, he's been in Tucson for years now, working as a documentary film writer, a journalist and a New York Times best ...

It was at Action Comics that Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, two second-generation immigrants from a Jewish neighborhood in Cleveland, found a home for Superman. It would also be where two Jewish kids ...

SHREW! is Amy Freed's feminist rewrite of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew that recreates the bawdy, broad humour without the misogyny.

Like any sane person, I had a fear of heights and said that I’d like to get a groundman’s job, which I was told entailed ...

From award-winning authors to pop culture's biggest stars, this spring's line-up of LGBTQ+ books may require an extra shelf.