A new biography uncovers the story of what Miles Franklin did after she found celebrity with her famous novel.
"This is for us a sacred task," says a world-renowned expert on German Jewish genealogy from the Looted Books Project.
An Unintended American Revolution,” Harvard professor Joyce E. Chaplin reveals how this relatively modest invention ...
Genealogists volunteering for the Looted Books Project recently returned a volume to a 103-year-old Holocaust survivor in Florida who was given the book in 1930 as a gift for her good performance in ...
Literacy Volunteers of Franklin and Somerset Counties [LVFSC] is expanding its adult tutoring and community literacy programs ...
Art critic Blake Gopnik spent hundreds of hours immersed in Barnes’s archives. The result is 'The Maverick’s Museum: Albert Barnes and His American Dream.' ...
Why didn't things work out in New York? Will Jones be a mentor for Anthony Richardson? Giants writer Dan Duggan breaks down ...
As part of the city of Des Moines' cuts, the Des Moines library is down two librarians and a social worker. What those ...
Several best-selling books have inspired new and returning television series this year as well as box office movie magnets ...
Opinion
The Political Fight of the Century
For the first time in decades, America has a chance to define its next political order. Trump offers fear, retribution, and scarcity. Liberals can stand for abundance.
A new memoir, "Unshrunk," offers a scathing critique of the psychiatric drug industry, and forges a new path to healing.
Peter Wolf, frontman from the J. Geils Band and a bona fide rock 'n' roll raconteur, has had Forrest Gump or Zelig type of ...