Award-winning author Elly Griffiths discusses the long art of the short story, including how it offers opportunities that ...

The novelist and short-story writer, who died Monday at ninety-six, contributed to The New Yorker for more than six decades.

In addition to this being our fabulous National Coming Out Day issue, it’s the 1,000th Family Portraits column I’ve written ...

For the 30th anniversary of "Pulp Fiction," John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Roth, Christopher Walken and others ...

Thompson’s new book, The Forest Yet to Come, is part of the Wolfstongue saga, which began as a direct response to his son’s difficulty with speech ...

The King of England for 38 years, Henry VIII wrote his lover, Anne Boleyn, a collection of secret, romantic letters for her.

You’d be forgiven for believing that the story of Irish rugby this millennium ... It belongs on the top shelf of the best Irish sports books ever written. Paul Howard is a former sportswriter ...

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Here, I’ve culled the top players from those stories, as well as added some additional enthusiastically recommended picks for good measure (like a rice-specific donabe and dedicated hot pot).

Chris Mackowski, a writing professor in St. Bonaventure University’s Jandoli School of Communication, has written a new book about the battle, “A Tempest of Iron and Lead: Spotsylvania Court House, ...

Though you wouldn’t immediately think of Las Vegas for its museums and galleries, the truth is that the city has its fair share of high quality attractions scattered around the city. And it’s a ...