A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. But who knew that books could kill?

Readers can look to the past to discover more about the man who became the first truly American Pope.

Yiyun Li’s memoir, “Things in Nature Merely Grow,” stuns with its lucidity and with the nightmarish facts that prompted its ...

But the book that most defined those months and years was Leslie Jamison’s The Empathy Exams. Jamison’s essay collection ...

Another Wasted Life.” That’s the name of a remarkable new song by the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Grammy-winning artist Rhiannon Giddens. She released a video of the song on October 2 to mark ...