Robert Smalls published a newspaper, established a transportation company and served five terms in the United States Congress ...

Kevin Sack, who shared in three Pulitzer Prizes for the New York Times, spent 10 years researching and writing about Mother ...

The technology’s ability to read and summarize text is already making it a useful tool for scholarship. How will it change ...

This scrupulously reported book traces how one of the world’s largest companies “bound its future” to China. By 2015, Apple ...

In which we highlight fiction and nonfiction that’s a little off the beaten path, where many dads yearn to go.

The great British nature writer Robert Macfarlane (“Underland ... Perhaps the most moving and beautiful part of his book comes in the interludes between visits to faraway rivers in ...

Likewise, his books are so various and yet so much themselves, it seems he has forged his own genre. Review: Is a River Alive? – Robert Macfarlane (Penguin Random House) He has won many kinds of ...

Robert Kiyosaki, famed author and financial guru ... A timeless classic, this book uses parables to convey fundamental financial wisdom. Kiyosaki often quotes its basic principles, such as ...

Robert Macfarlane has climbed to the icy summits of windswept mountains and plunged into the darkened depths of the earth to research his books, and he says that may have given people the ...

Recalling nickel antes and trash talk with the feminist figure, Against Our Will author, and poker fiend who recently died at 90.

Netflix has entered into one of the biggest book deals with author Dan Brown for his upcoming The Secret of Secrets—the sixth installment in his best-selling book series, based on Harvard professor of ...

Scott, and “Is a River Alive?” by the renowned nature writer Robert Macfarlane. In several respects, the two books differ. “Is a River Alive?” is a wide-ranging feat of reporting that ...