I grew up in a house full of paintings and books,” Jonathan Lethem writes in his introduction to. “My father made the pai ...

It launched his blazing career, full of big literary books that bore this signature. Here is Franzen’s own account. He speaks in paragraphs. When thinking, he looks away, burrows into his hands. He ...

In 2016, a University of Chicago scholar stumbled across an extraordinary piece of writing that had been lost for nearly two ...

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In these turbulent times, we can only imagine the wisdom he might have shared, the guidance he would have offered. His voice is profoundly missed, especially now when his words could have offered clar ...

A tablet used as a paving stone that had been discovered as the oldest known inscription of the Ten Commandments is up for ...