Every new year a crop of books, music and films become part of the public domain in the U.S. Jennifer Jenkins of Duke University shares a few of the works from 1927 coming our way. Read more
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The tree, named after the author Thomas Hardy, was surrounded by 18th- and 19th-century gravestones. It was a popular site for locals and tourists. Read more
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Publishers are releasing more than half a dozen editions of the report, and are now in a frantic race to be first to market. Read more
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The tail end of 2022 has been marked by a worrying sense that the center really isn’t holding. Read more
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“Reading this book reminded me of watching a cat lick a dog’s eye goo.” Read more
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The nation’s approach to adult education has so far neglected to connect the millions of people struggling to read with the programs set up to help them. Read more
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Founded in 1982 at San Jose State University in California, the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest challenges entrants to compose opening sentences to the worst of all possible novels. Read more
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Launched in 1994, the magazine published reviews, essays and interviews, and was an important outlet for book reviewers and for authors. Read more
American Masters: The Adventures of Saul Bellow illuminates how Bellow transformed modern literature and navigated through the issues of his time, including race, gender and the Jewish immigrant experience, through rare archival footage and interviews with Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie and many others. Watch trailer
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No one outside The New York Times knows exactly how its best sellers are calculated—and the list of theories is longer than the actual list of best sellers. Read more
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