When the president unexpectedly fired the librarian of Congress, a prominent legislator denounced the “open despotism which now rules at Washington.” The year was 1829, and as Andrew Jackson installed ...

The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction. Credit...By Sebastian Mast Supported by The envelope, please: After a full year spent reading hundreds of ...

Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times. Every week, the critics and editors at the The New York Times Book Review pick the most interesting and notable new releases, ...

Es Devlin’s The Library of Us has emerged as one of Miami Art Week’s most dramatic spectacles. The 20-foot-tall rotating bookshelf housing 2,500 books invites visitors to read and reflect in a quiet ...

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth posted about fighting narcoterrorists using the classic Franklin children’s books. “Franklin the Turtle” is a book series for children written by Canadian writer Paulette ...