From neglected orphans to unjustly imprisoned convicts, these books exemplify a refusal to be content with life’s bad hands.

The novels and nonfiction we couldn’t stop thinking about this year—and in a year like this one, that’s saying something.

“Everyone Who is Gone is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis” by Jonathan Blitzer (Penguin, ...

Chief Creative Officer and publisher of DC Comics Jim Lee attends the Warner Bros. Premiere of "The Suicide Squad" at The ...

From a history of college sports and a handbook on campus free speech to an analysis of standardized tests, 2024 saw an ...

Looking to find more joy and meaning in life as you get older? Here are some good places to start.

How Economics Explains the World. By Andrew Leigh. Mariner Books; 240 pages; $26. Published in Britain as “The Shortest ...

Travel to the American South, Vietnam and beyond with this year’s best cookbooks, memoirs and historic deep dives ...

National Library Services to Schools staff are pleased to share our annual selection of some of the best children’s and young ...

I’m not sure if 2024 had a novel, like 2022’s “Babel” or 2023’s “Fourth Wing,” that took the world by storm and reshaped the ...

The first Congress began in 1789, and truth be told, it wasn’t really the first. The Confederation Congress met from 1781 ...