Indeed, throughout the decades, plenty of books — some highly acclaimed, some much more obscure — have been taken by filmmakers and transformed into some of the greatest motion pictures in ...

Folk tales and beloved characters from cultures around the globe can are celebrated in popular books for young readers. Test your knowledge of them with this short quiz. The celebrity chef’s ...

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By Dave Kim The celebrity chef’s second children’s book, “Billy and the Epic Escape,” faced accusations that it stereotyped First Nations people in Australia. By Ali Watkins Our ...

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The latest from the chronicler of urban grit known for “Lush Life” and “Clockers” — as well as writing on “The Wire” TV series — is set in 2008 in East Harlem, where a five-story ...

The turbulent and troubled life of Vivien Leigh comes to light in Lyndsy Spence's new book. Ysenda Maxtone Graham discovers the mental turmoil the actress battled with. Roger Lewis uncovers the ...

Books can hold decades of earned knowledge in the span of a few hundred pages. When it comes to understanding finances, fewer decisions are easier, cheaper or more impactful than the move to ...

When former educator Danielle Bayard Jackson was called into the principal’s office, she was told to stop reading whole books with her students ... Rose Horowitch: A lot of people brought up that that ...

A Sequel to the First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid; containing an Easy Introduction to Modern Geometry (with numerous Examples). By John Casey (Dublin: Hodges, 1886.) ...

Christian Kracht’s book finds a narrator much like the author on a family- and history-haunted road trip with his mother.

Artificial-intelligence tools such as ChatGPT might soon become fully autonomous by learning to perceive and interact with their environment.