Ever notice how certain foods in books stick with you long after you've finished reading? There's something about the way authors describe a meal, a snack, or even a simple drink that can transport ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks to film director John Patton Ford about his latest movie, "How To Make a Killing." In the new film "How To Make A Killing," Becket Redfellow is making his confession to a ...

Saisudha Acharya’s History Unpacked book series was conceived when she was teaching at the alternative school her son ...

Tucked away among the towering pines of northern Wisconsin stands a castle that looks like it was plucked straight from a ...

Gripping Beast are now taking pre-orders for the Medieval wargame, Écorcheurs!, designed by Robert W. Jones. You can get your ...

A little more than a thousand years ago, monks at Saint Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt’s Sinai desert removed Western Palestinian Aramaic and Greek writing from animal-skin parchments. They replaced ...

A Psalter (a standalone book of Psalms) open to a page showing the contest between the Archangel Michael and the dragon. (Courtesy Lewis & Clark College) There are some really old books on display at ...

Staff at an Ohio library were shocked to discover a note alongside something else unexpected in an overdue book returned by a young girl. "I bit off more than I could chew by checking 11 books out," ...

Janet Rich Edwards admits that her debut novel has nothing to do with her work as a professor of epidemiology at Harvard. Inspiration came instead from two powerful forces: her own status as a ...

New research challenges the centuries-old assumption that the world's most famous illuminated manuscript, the Book of Kells, was created on the Scottish island of Iona. Instead, Dr. Victoria Whitworth ...

Eighteen books by Princeton professors have been selected for inclusion in 2025 year-end “best of” lists — in some cases, multiple lists. The accolades celebrate faculty novels and short stories, ...