Books

Our June pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club is N.K. Jemisin's "The Fifth Season." Here are some…

A new crop of writers have sought to depict what a future world might look like if humans don't do…

Daniel Mendelsohn, author of our May pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club, Now Read This, joins Jeffrey…

In N.K. Jemisin's Hugo Award-winning fantasy novel "The Fifth Season," the world is menaced by environmental catastrophe, and its inhabitants…

Pulitzer-winning journalist and author Tony Horwitz has died of apparent cardiac arrest. Best known for the book "Confederates in the…

Tony Horwitz, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the best-selling author, died Monday of apparent cardiac arrest in Washington, D.C.

Arlington National Cemetery is well known as the final resting place for fallen U.S. soldiers. Less famous is the elite…

If you're longing to be transported, here are some recommendations from "Now Read This" book club members.

"Classics are classic because all of us are always living the same old stories and dynamics, always enacting the same…

Award-winning writer and historian Jared Diamond has spent his career studying the rise and fall of civilizations. In his latest…