New distractions and diversions are precipitously driving down the share of young people who are reading for pleasure.

Moses recorded how the Lord described Himself, and one of His traits became a commonly repeated biblical phrase: “The Lord passed before him [Moses] and proclaimed, ‘The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful ...

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From Oct. 5-11, book lovers are coming together to celebrate and support the freedom to read. Banned Books Week raises ...

The federal government shutdown dragged on Thursday after Republican and Democratic bills to reopen the government failed again.

When you drag yourself into the office before 9 AM, you're barely awake and probably clutching a cup of coffee like it's a ...

Some action on a proposed rewrite of a local ordinance follows an outpouring of comment on impact of round-up in Providence ...

The thirty-three-year-old socialist is rewriting the rules of New York politics. Can he transform the city as mayor?

In his first book, “The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding,” journalist Osita Nwanevu ...

Reasons often cited for pulling a book include LGBTQ+ themes, depictions of race and passages with violence and sexual ...

I spend more time with the dead than the living,” Daniel Babb said Saturday afternoon as we sat beneath a tree in a pauper’s ...

In Crito and Phaedo, Plato takes this alliance between Socrates and poetry further, attributing to Socrates direct acts of poetic composition in plays, hymns, and fables, conferring on him the title ...