Books & Ideas
In 1973, when Pulitzer Prize-winning UPI journalist Lucinda Franks was 26, she was sent to interview U.S. attorney Robert Morgenthau, who had just...
A line of people eager to greet Mrs. Clinton stretched all the way to the Steamship Authority wharf just before the rainy-day event Wednesday at the...
After seeing the northern states for the first time in 1951 during a summer with his aunt and uncle in Buffalo, N.Y., Cong. John Lewis began...
David McCullough Jr. had been for a long time quietly going about his business as a teacher of English at Wellesley High School in Massachusetts.
“I’ve built a grand castle with turrets and towers. And parapets, arrow slits, keeps, and a moat. I’ve battled the seagulls and land crabs for hours...
New York Times best-selling author Andre Dubus 3rd has a theory about why we are on the planet Earth.
Owen Suskind was a normal toddler as he approached his third birthday. Then, without warning, he vanished, lost in the depths of his own head.
By the time Eli Dagostino captured the perfect shot of Anthony Esposito, Mr. Esposito seemed close to hypnotized.
Published in June, John Hough Jr.'s newest book re-imagines the Battle of Little Bighorn through the creation of a fictional protagonist.
Humorist and author David Sedaris visits the Vineyard on Saturday, August 2, with two performances.
In recent times, antiquarian maps have become a treasure coveted by collectors, libraries, museums. And thieves.
The Gam, More songs the Whalemen Sang is a sequel to E. Gale Huntington's book Songs the Whalemen Sang.
