After I finished college, Leslie Jamison’s The Empathy Exams won my allegiance immediately and forever.

The scholar Christina Sharpe’s new book comprises memories, observations, artifacts and artworks — fragments attesting to the persistence of prejudice while allowing glimpses of something like ...

A new exhibition in Dublin showcases historic manuscripts written in Irish monasteries. The show also features medieval ...

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Read: Joan Didion’s magic trick More than direct, Notes to John is naked, unadorned. It’s Didion but “unprecedentedly intimate,” just as the copy on the book jacket promises.

Inspired Life Librarian finds love notes, doodles in books and shares them with a grateful public The public library in Oakland, Calif., has an online fan following ...

Christine Murphy's 'Notes on Surviving the Fire' isn't interested in a tidy detective narrative. The emotionally resonant novel will stick with you for a while.

With “Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound,” Daphne A. Brooks blurs and eventually explodes this binary.

Joan Didion's diary of post-therapy notes, addressed to her husband, John Gregory Dunne, is going to be published in 'Notes to John.' ...

What would Joan Didion think about the new book “Notes to John?” The fresh release from Knopf is a collection of Didion’s therapy session notes that were discovered in a filing cabinet after ...

How Meta's new community notes program might work as fact-checking ends for Facebook, Instagram Mark Zuckerberg set the internet abuzz this week when the Meta CEO announced that the tech giant ...

The Oakland Public Library has spent years collecting items its patrons have left in library books, from old photographs to love notes. The archive is available publicly on their website.