New Bedford has selected four sculptors as finalists to create a statue of famed "Moby-Dick" author Herman Melville. The ...

Four accomplished sculptors have been selected as finalists to create New Bedford’s Herman Melville statue, chosen from over ...

Richard Powers’s recent novels have traded complexity for preachiness, but his latest is an effective twist on AI panic.

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IT is the centennial year of "Billy Budd, Sailor," Herman Melville's last book, a novella. Melville wrote it in the last five years of his life, but it was published posthumously only in 1924. It is ...

His new book, "America First," revisits the debate between President Franklin D ... Even the villains are fully formed individuals, some as trapped by circumstances as he became. Buy it here.

A critique of the American Dream, exploring themes of love, wealth, and social change in the 1920s A magical realism novel ...

The Donmar Warehouse has announced the full cast for the UK premiere of Dave Malloy's Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet Of ...

It’s hard to think that Coppola, who copped screenwriting credits on “The Godfather” and “Apocalypse Now,” wrote this line ...

The Buenos Aires-born, Stockholm-raised, Brooklyn-based NYT -bestselling author writes in longhand with a 20-year-old ...

Two new books by psychologists explore the roots of group identity, arguing that it is natural and potentially useful — even in polarized times. Slim and full of obfuscations, her memoir touches ...

By Bruce Handy In Kwame Alexander’s new verse novel and Karen L. Swanson’s nonfiction picture book, Black girls pursue their dreams of playing big-league baseball. By Abby McGanney Nolan How ...