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 ...

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

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.

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

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.

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 ...

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.

Donald Trump, not known as a reader, has taken the time to recommend a book — one that’s deliberately full of blank pages. The president’s recommendation came in the form of a tweet this ...