Recently, a friend gave me a hand-me-down kit filled with beautiful wooden games and brightly colored books that promises to teach my child to read. The phonics-based program, the company says, can be ...

Maris Kreizman writes about the way police are mythologized in popular culture in this excerpt from her book 'I Want to Burn ...

There has been a lot of talk recently about the Trump administration potentially releasing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from ...

Making his first public comments since tearing his Achilles tendon during Game 7 of the NBA Finals, Pacers star Tyrese ...

A bookworm's dream has hit the market for $1.6m - a property with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves filled with 7,000 hardbacks.

But for many working adults, the summer can often feel the same as the rest of the year. So, maybe our idea of a "summer read" should encompass a wider swath of books? Here are a few out this week.

My First Passover Board Book. DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley), $6.99 (36pp) ISBN 978-0-7894-8452-9. Like other entries in the publisher's My First series, ...

My First Halloween Board Book, an addition to the My First Word Books series, offers a holiday vocabulary lesson. A photograph of ""Dracula"" labels the trick-or-treater's ""cape""; ...