Discovered by a collector who purchased an incomplete set of 18th-century Laws of New York at a library sale, the plain book, worth approximately $100 and rebound in unattractive blue Buckram ...

My research in the archives was born of our plans for this issue, with its focus on books and reading. After considering (and mercifully rejecting) a proposal to retroactively bestow a slate of CT ...

A new year means new books to look forward to, and 2025 already promises a bounty — from the first volume of Bill Gates’s memoirs to a new novel by the reigning Nobel laureate, Han Kang ...

Even apart from the least-common-denominator “book of the month” clubs she implied, the term book club often connotes a grown-up version of middle school kids trying to start an oral class ...

This sweeping novel about the life, loves, struggles and triumphs of a queer English Burmese actor is the topic of our January book club discussion. A Hamptons vacation and a prank gone wrong ...

In the literary world, this year is shaping up to be a good one for fans of cultural criticism: There are new books about Better Call Saul and biographies of James Gandolfini and Lorne Michaels on ...

Be sure to include your daytime phone number and home address on all submissions. Submissions that exceed 200 words are not likely to be considered for publication in the Letters Unlimited blog on ...

The free speech crisis hiding in plain sight is about whether institutions can withstand the pressure to self-censor in the face of legal and political intimidation. But legal reforms alone are ...