A fifth-century A.D. anthology of Greek writing, originally collected by a father for his son, offers wisdom and insight into ...

Columnist Larry Gennari reviews new books by Beverly Gage, Jody Kantor, and others that explore American history, upward ...

These LGBTQ+ books about religion and spirituality provide inspiration and guidance for believers of all different kinds.

Grumpy Monkey is back in “Grumpy Monkey Father’s Day Fuss” by Suzanne Lang. In this seasonal installment, we learn where ...

For the critic Leslie Fiedler, the country’s best and worst fiction was shaped by visions of escape from society—and ...

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You’ve just loaded into Super Mario Bros. for the first time. You start to run forward across a brick floor when a brown mushroom trots into view. You’re not expecting it, so you smash right into it.

It’s always a drag when a game you are looking forward disappoints, but it’s even sadder when it shows you exactly how it didn’t have to at the same time. Plenty of games miss the mark in some way, ...

Perhaps because he’s so cute and marketable, Yoshi’s adventures have been designed for a younger and younger audience for the last several years. 2006’s Yoshi’s Island DS was not out-of-step with the ...

“Do we really need another book about the Lewis and Clark expedition?” asked Andrea Wulf in The New York Times. The answer, after reading Craig Fehrman’s new page-turner, is “an emphatic yes.” One ...

As a high school history teacher and a friend, Artie Dam is beloved. His principal hobby, sailing the waters of coastal Massachusetts, brings him bliss. But his wife seems cool and his son distant, ...

What the rise of A.I. and the gutting of books coverage across U.S. media will mean for literature. By Dwight Garner In 1981, Donald Barthelme published “Challenge,” a funny and weirdly prescient ...