Rea Irvin, a savvy man-about-town, designed the first cover, planned for February, 1925. He rejected the initial concept of a ...

Attacked by two justices, lower-court judges and litigants, the 1964 ruling in New York Times v. Sullivan keeps getting cited ...

In Charlotte Wood’s novel “Stone Yard Devotional,” an atheist burrows into herself while staying in a convent, and ...

The taut, disturbing stories in Bob Johnson’s “The Continental Divide” share the setting of a rural hamlet in Indiana — and ...

The standout essays in Megan Marshall’s “After Lives” recall her troubled father and the fate of a high school classmate.

District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer issued the preliminary injunction after 19 Democratic attorneys general sued Trump.

When Ms. Kim set out to design the cover of “Fresh Complaint,” a 2017 story collection by Jeffrey Eugenides, a writer she had ...

An announcement from Simon & Schuster’s publisher left the literary community wondering whether blurbs, the little snippets ...

Papa Roach are about to bring their biggest-ever show to the UK and Jacoby Shaddix still has something to prove ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave Mr. Musk’s representatives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency a ...

Ann Patchett, who owns a Nashville bookstore, has written numerous best sellers. She talks about her love of reading and how it inspires her writing ...

Other books we recommend this week include Dorian Lynskey’s study of the role the apocalypse plays in the cultural ...