Our semiquincentennial theme was highlighted in Rove’s latest Wall Street Journal column.

This debut romance novel by Whelan follows Ella Durran, a 24-year-old Rhodes scholar torn between two lives: a promising career in the United States and an intoxicating love affair at Oxford University.

2025 moderator Julia Whelan received a Gracies Award for her narration of Kristin Hannah's The Women.

Playtone partners Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman have teamed with Eon Productions’ Barbara Broccoli to acquire screen rights for An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s.

At least there is now The Woman Who Knew Everyone, a proper new biography by the journalist Meryl Gordon, who has made a specialty of moneyed matrons.

Patrick Radden Keefe talks about his book, which has now been adapted into an FX mini-series.

The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction.

Cartoonist and author Roz Chast was among those honored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, receiving a 2023 National Humanities Medal.

2025 writer Kaveh Akbar is a National Book Award Finalist for his debut novel, Martyr!

Rita Braver was inducted into the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Gold Circle for her work as a national correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning.

James McBride's latest novel, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, which follows the Black and Jewish residents of a Pennsylvania town in the early 20th century, hit a milestone: Since its release last summer, it has sold more than a million copies.

Dr. Longo has long advocated longer and better living through eating Lite Italian, one of a global explosion of Road to Perpetual Wellville theories about how to stay young in a field that is itself still in its adolescence.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and writer has been named Canon Historian of the Washington National Cathedral, the first to hold this title.

2024 writer James McBride won the Kirkus Prize for The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, described by judges as "a boisterous hymn to community, mercy, and karmic justice."

In a new Netflix mini-series, the two actresses playing the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel’s protagonist, are blind, just like the character.

Billy Collins strolls among the palm trees to explain why he left Westchester for Winter Park, and why his poems keep getting shorter.

Former congressman and grandson of Robert Kennedy will focus on economic issues amid Brexit tensions.

John A. Farrell chronicles the life of Edward M. Kennedy, heralded as one of America’s most important political figures, and provides new insight into his private life and public career.

Lawrence Wright examines the path and impact of Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of Al Qaeda—an Egyptian-born surgeon whose biography, like that of his colleague, didn’t entirely match terrorist stereotypes.

In his new book, former Republican political operative Tim Miller answers the question no one else has fully grappled with: why did normal people go along with the worst of Trumpism?