Maybe Jackson's ceramic "monsters" are just creatures who look like they shouldn’t belong — and in her world-building Jackson ...

Seattle satirist Maria Semple’s breakthrough novel is a flurry of contemporary, epistolary wit. Passive aggressive e-mail ...

Since the start of the year, the Marlene Meyerson JCC in New York City has been hosting the Books That Changed My Life Festival. On Feb. 10, the festival will be featuring a panel on monsters in ...

And yet I ended up with 18 books to blurb in the summer and fall alone. I realized I needed a hard-line no blurbs policy. If I make one exception, I’ll make 50. Second, I got a blurb request for ...

No student in a drama department of a woman’s club gets very far without encountering the name of Percy MacKaye ... Two of his books have become operas and both have been sung by major ...

Arctic daily sea ice extent continued to hover near record daily lows in January, with the ice edge well northward of its long-term average position in most areas. In contrast to the cold conditions ...

Original Percy Jackson actor Logan Lerman has revealed that he would be interested in starring in the Disney+ show. With season 2 now in the works, some Percy Jackson fans are hoping for Logan to ...

Hong Kong pop star Jackson Wang, a member of K-pop boy band Got7, is recovering from a health scare that took place while he was on a television variety show in Seoul over the weekend. The 30-year ...

ABOARD A FRENCH NAVY FLIGHT OVER THE BALTIC SEA — With its powerful camera, the French Navy surveillance plane scouring the Baltic Sea zoomed in on a cargo ship plowing the waters below—closer ...