MIT graduate student Alex Kachkine once spent nine months meticulously restoring a damaged baroque Italian painting, which left him plenty of time to wonder if technology could speed things up. Last ...

Hemingway’s missing novel. Alice’s backwards-printed book in Through the Looking Glass. Sylvia Plath’s never-finished ...

Nearly one million books published as early as the 15th century — and in 254 languages — are part of a Harvard University ...

Cato Institute co-founder Ed Crane has always been of the view that “democracy” must be extraordinarily limited. It should be ...

Ageing, especially women’s ageing, is often viewed negatively. In her memoir Blooming, Carol Lefevre critiques different ...

And now at just 8 years old, she’s a published author, too. Her book, “Charlotte Learns a Lesson,” became available this month on Amazon in paperback and Kindle formats. The lesson in the 24 ...

So, while the lack of Scheffler was puzzling (to be clear, Arkush acknowledges the Scheffler omission, and explains it at book's end), the ... who the poorly dressed old man was.

In Madeleine Thien's speculative fiction about a climate-ravaged future, 7-year-old Lina learns from past voyagers and other time travelers.

“Good Movies as Old Books: Films Reimagined as Vintage Book Covers,” out this week from Chronicle Books. But to be clear, this is not a book about books; it’s a book about movies … right?

They can lose control of themselves. “For it is clear enough,” Lippmann wrote, “that under certain conditions men respond as powerfully to fictions as they do to realities, and that in many ...