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LONDON - With skyrocketing fuel prices, a sluggish economy, disruptive strikes and long waiting times in hospital emergency rooms, Britons...

"Journey's End" was a surprise hit. The first short run was directed by James Whale and featured a young Laurence...

Edith Pearlman, whose critically acclaimed 2011 collection of short stories, "Binocular Vision," lifted her from relative publicity obscurity to make...

Our reviewer recommends old and new books.

A once purely decorative form is now full of humor, surprise and even feeling.

The fates of three people in New Delhi come together in this thrilling new novel. Sunny, the heir to a...

The New York Public Library on Thursday named Brent Reidy director of its Research Libraries, placing the 40-year-old music historian...

Don't ask Robert Caro when he's going to finish his next Lyndon Johnson book. In the documentary "Turn Every Page...

What books are on your bedside table?The Tao Te Ching, translated by Stephen Mitchell. "I Am That: Conversations with Sri...

TS Eliot was probably not referring to self-help books when he wrote, "For last year's words belong to last year's...