Thomas Becket was a devoted servant to his king. A fight over royal authority ruined the relationship—with fatal consequences ...

The Microsoft co-founder was always smart, but says this book taught him to understand and value EQ as well as IQ.

When Prof. John W. Boyer published his landmark book on the history of the University of Chicago in 2015, his work gave a valuable new window into UChicago’s past. But for Boyer, a renowned historian ...

Melissa Hogenboom's Breadwinners reveals the unseen gender-based power dynamics and cognitive biases that shape our everyday ...

What can a fifth-century text by St. Augustine tell us about the priorities of the two most powerful American Catholics?

Outgoing Ford Foundation President Darren Walker's new book “The Idea of America" is a collection of more than eight dozen texts spanning his 12-year tenure with one of the nation's leading ...

Some of the same titles and authors the C.I.A. sent east during the Cold War, including “1984,” are now deemed objectionable ...

Dillon Krueger, a local artist, veteran and children's author, recently published his newest book, "Why We Pledge Allegiance," which will be available during Columbus Days, Aug. 8-10.

I had thus hoped for a definitive biography of Abloh, but Robin Givhan’s Make It Ours: Crashing the Gates of Culture with Virgil Abloh is not that book. Where a great biography brings you behind the ...

The Literacy Legacy Project launched its first Stories in the Park installation at CFJ Park in Broome County. Pages from the children's book "Jabari Tries" are displayed along the park fence with ...

While Haspel’s book focuses more on why we need more robust child care policy than how we get there, he provides a few ideas for the latter: giving child care educators a wage that could support their ...

New books published this week include a nostalgic graphic history of video games, a queer, complicated and hopeful novel set in Nigeria, and a biography of a forensic ornithologist.