Ms. Ashton digs into the historical record to reconstruct a possible origin for Harriet Beecher Stowe’s history-making novel.

Sometimes, the series argues, history yields no heroes or villains, just people whose convictions curdle into confusion, and ...

Making Books in the Middle Ages by Sara J Charles (Reaktion) This fascinating book explores the medieval process of bookmaking and reproduction that was often arduous, back-breaking, eye-straining ...

Edwin Frank’s history of the modern novel, Stranger than Fiction, balances its erudition with plenty of gossip on Proust, ...

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A new licensing agreement between HarperCollins and an undisclosed AI company will “allow limited use of select nonfiction ...

Weekly book lists of exciting new releases, bestsellers, classics, and more. The lists are curated by the editors of Kirkus Reviews.

Weekly book lists of exciting new releases, bestsellers, classics, and more. The lists are curated by the editors of Kirkus Reviews.

There are two obvious reasons why history films can’t achieve perfect realism. First, there are simply limits to what is ...

The story behind long running fiction magazine 10 Story Book runs through a number of Chicago newspaper and business ...

George Clooney has come a long way from television emergency rooms. He's regarded as one of the most prolific (and most ...

From the late '60s until 1998, when the Good Friday Agreement wound down hostilities between the Catholic nationalist Irish ...