My teachers always told me that I could find a path to the middle class. And I did. If I were born even ten years later, I ...

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No list of classic autumn books is complete without Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, widely regarded as one of the best ghost stories ever written. It's definitely more scary than cozy, ...

Single-sex education was supposed to be a relic of a bygone era, but getting into a top all-girls institution has never been ...

"May her hereafter be filled with impossibly handsome men and devoted dogs," says the Queen, a friend of the best-selling ...

Still haunted by a harrowing case involving a sadistic serial killer who butchered and decapitated young girls, London Met Detective Sergeant Jack Warr is fast reaching breaking point.

Paper Girl,” which launches worldwide Tuesday, is the latest from the bestselling author of “Dopesick” and “Factory Man.” ...

Gap-toothed, with laughter lines around her eyes and a shaggy ash-blonde mane, she had a unique talent for flattering ...

In a world of dwindling reviews, the author Lydia Davis’s new work charts a more serendipitous path to reading.

The JES Avanti Foundation donated funds to help Woodland Elementary School participate in the Books on Break Program from ...

In her new memoir, author and journalist Beth Macy returns to her hometown of Urbana, Ohio to learn how it changed from a stable working- and middle-class community to a town struggling with poverty.

The novellist, whose book of the same name inspired the hit Disney+ series, died after a fall, her family announced on Monday ...