Leisure reading rates are down, but you can still fight against a "post-literate" society. Here are 10 fun activities to keep ...

This season’s new fiction and nonfiction illuminate our manic world while offering riveting escapes. Nonfiction is a similar embarrassment of riches, among them David Epstein’s counterintuitive theory ...

Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Every so often, Hollywood gets the bug for the Trojan War. (When they’re ...

From Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice to the beloved fantasy world of Harry Potter, these are the books you must read before ...

Feeling stuck can quietly reshape how you see yourself. Seven thoughtful books offer fresh perspectives on uncertainty, ...

Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. Read all of Slate’s stories about the 25 Greatest Picture Books of the Past 25 Years. On Oct. 8, 2010 ...

We recently published a photo essay that captured people reading books around the D.C. area. We asked them where they got the books, what they thought of them and why they liked them. The feedback on ...

At the start of the season, we made a literary bucket list. Here’s how we checked it off. By The New York Times Books Staff A few months ago, we invited you to join us in a low-stakes summer reading ...

If this month’s selections could be awarded superlatives, they’d include Longest (for Jill Lepore’s 720-page history), Shortest (for the under-200-pages “Pick a Color”), Most Striking (for Stephen ...

The series has more characters looking for love than you can count.