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Oxford English Dictionary (OED) announces that “Toxic” is the Word of the Year for 2018. According to an OED website, they found that there was a...

Silhouette of a mysterious man © Sergign/Shutterstock. Editor’s Note: Karen Rose is the award-winning, #1 international bestselling author of some twenty novels, including the bestselling Baltimore and...

  There are bookstores and then there is Powell’s. I am lucky enough to live in the same city as the indomitable, inconquerable, unmappable Powell’s flagship...

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Netflix has announced that they will adapt Daphne Du Mauier’s classic gothic novel, Rebecca, with Working Title films. Armie Hammer is set to play Maxim DeWinter and Lily...

The winners of the 69th National Book Awards have been announced! The ceremony was hosted by Nick Offerman and lifetime achievement awards were given to Doron Weber and...

Peng Shepherd’s “The Book of M” envisions a society where reality is malleable—and it’s more plausible than it sounds Photo by ariel sion Post-apocalyptic adventures play on modern...

To find out how and why, read our ten questions about teaching writing with the author of “The Job of the Wasp” I n our monthly series...

Thomas Page McBee on his new book “Amateur,” about navigating masculinity as a transgender boxer Photo by Ryan Tang Part memoir and part anthropological study, Thomas Page...

In a law review article published over forty years ago, Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan argued that state constitutions are a “font of individual liberties”...