A new documentary takes a deep look at the art and craft of creating children's picture books, giving respect to an often overlooked genre. "Story & Pictures By" will be screened at Santa Cruz High on ...

The owner of Black Ribbon Books in Arkansas sells new and used books at all prices to increase affordability and access to ...

Acclaimed painter Aron Wiesenfeld has gained fans around the world, including filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro and cartoonists ...

Missing for decades from the Anglophile version of its origin story was another great visual narrative tradition, of the East ...

Left on Read, a new bookstore in downtown Wichita, specializes in books by and about people of color. Owner Latasha Eley ...

Thomas Kinkade turned himself into a ubiquitous brand — but there was more to him than that, a new documentary shows.

Harlan and Anna Hubbard lived a life of simple elegance in a cabin where they created art and music. Here’s what their Ohio River property looks like today — and what one group hopes it can be in the ...

Didier Eribon’s account of his mother’s decline, The Life, Old Age and Death of a Working Class Woman, is frank and moving, if a tad clunky ...

With Irish-themed events, comedy, music, theater, outdoor activities, and more, here are 21 things to do in North Jersey this weekend.

The UK journalist Nick Trend explores how passion, love and sex has fuelled artists such as Francis Bacon, Sandro Botticelli, Caravaggio and Dora Carrington, analysing how lovers and muses have ...

In 2006, American poet Linda Gregg published the essay “The Art of Finding” in praise of finding poetry rather than crafting it. “I believe that poetry at its best is found rather than ...

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce . . . is a book to buy and read and lock up, but it is not a book to miss. Its claim to be literature is as good as the claim of the last ...