German author Jenny Erpenbeck and translator Michael Hofmann won the International Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday for Kairos, the story of a tangled love affair during the final years …
One of the classic Chinese novels and one of the world’s great works of literature, “Dream of the Red Chamber” (1791), by Cao Xueqin, is an epic depicting the gradual …
Cost of Living8:55The return of the bookstore When e-readers like the Amazon Kindle burst onto the scene, showing up next to menorahs and under Christmas trees in the early 2000s, …
The debut novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald, one of the leading English-language writers of the 20th century, “This Side of Paradise” (1920) is a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age tale detailing the complicated …
Yusef Salaam said he was “deeply humbled” to win a seat Tuesday on the New York City Council, a reflection of the approach he’s taken despite spending about seven years …