The remnants of a railroad that went bankrupt in 1888 have become one of the highest-flying stocks in the oil patch—and one ...

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Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

George Washington has gone from pious moral instructor of youth in early 19th-century biographies (“I cannot tell a lie”) to ...

Then the feta cheese, caviar, cottage cheese and cucumbers. In some countries, these ingredients even sold out: Iceland ...

When Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a federal holiday in 1863, abolitionists hailed pumpkins as a symbol of virtue and the ...

The Notre Dame Cathedral, the icon of Paris, reopens on December 8 with masses, ceremonial events and other festivities ...

The vegetable stand is closed and we’re less than 30 days out from the winter solstice— the darkest and shortest day of the year.  Old Man Winter (he, ...

A new exhibition is opening at the National Library of Australia, featuring exquisite and intriguing rare books, prints and ...

Twenty-three years later Barnes and Noble survives, as does Prairie Archives and the Book Rack. The status of the Elf Shelf ...

Poet Kaveh Akbar speaks with the Nobel Prize-winning Turkish novelist about his book of journal entries and paintings, ...

Jean-Léon Gérôme pioneered Orientalism in art in a way that can still be felt—and seen—today. Museum show in Doha traces that ...