Author J.R. Ward talks about her new book, a romantasy and an instant New York Times bestseller, "Crown of War and Shadow" ...

Living with Tom in New Mexico, Judy had not found the freedom, sexual or otherwise, that she had been after when she left John; to the contrary, she had quickly found herself in another bad marriage.

Teachers and researchers identify three barriers to finding reading materials that meet these students' needs—and how to ...

Southend-born poet and entrepreneur Sonny Green has announced the release of his new book. The spoken-word collection, titled What England Means To Me: Spoken Word & Poetry, explores themes of ...

Doomscrolling has a new hazard. Oxford University Press announced “rage bait” is its 2025 word of the year. The prestigious publisher defines “rage bait” as “online content deliberately designed to ...

Homestead is real. And by “Homestead,” I mean the sprawling, largely self-contained and -sustaining compound in the Rocky Mountains that inspired and informed the best-selling post-apocalyptic Black ...

Matthew McConaughey has always had a Texas-twang way with words - most famously with his signature "Dazed and Confused" line, "alright, alright, alright." Now the actor has turned his words a poetry ...

And when those white-sailed ships piled us together, cargo in the hull of hell, the word rode with us, our tongues anointed with the power of God. When the lash found our language, when they said ...

For Martha Barnette, griping about grammatical pet peeves is one of the least interesting ways to talk about language. Instead, the co-host of the radio show “A Way with Words” says she’d rather think ...

The Compound, by Aisling Rawle (Random House). In this delightfully absorbing novel, an isolated house in the middle of a menacing desert landscape serves as the backdrop of a reality-TV competition.

Rawle's debut novel, described as “Love Is Blind” meets “Lord of the Flies,” follows a group of 20-somethings who compete on a reality show until producers raise the stakes. ‘We are looking at a ...

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF LYDIA E. PINKHAM—Robert Collyer Washburn—:Putnam ($3.50).* “COMING EVENTS CAST THEIR SHADOWS BEFORE.” “The feeling of utter listlessness, lack of energy, desire to be alone, or ...