Books

The subway baby is all grown up. This summer marks 25 years since New Yorker Danny Stewart found a baby in a subway station and went on to adopt the...

You see it everywhere: A narrative of progress in two snapshots—before and after—that leaves the viewer to imagine what came in between. On the left, a body whose inhabitant is...

Hardcover fiction 1. Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Ballantine Books: $30) A story of friendship, love and adversity during the 1980s Space Shuttle program. 2. James by Percival Everett (Doubleday:...

Twenty years ago, a reader looking for taboo sex in print had to slink to the back of the bookstore and make whispered inquiries. Today, kinky books make up an...

Last week, the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution requires public school districts to allow parents to opt out of any curriculum or instructional material for their child that runs...

Critic Bethanne Patrick recommends 10 promising titles, fiction and nonfiction, to consider for your July reading list. It’s officially beach-reads season: Whether you do your reading outdoors or inside in...

Imagine a couple of bros recording a video podcast in which they get together to swap compliments while casually chatting about vaporizing due process. This is roughly what it felt...

The Supreme Court handed a victory to religious parents on Friday that allows them to opt their kids out from reading or learning from books about LGBTQ stories in public...

A divided U.S. Supreme Court has sided with religious parents who want to pull their children out of the classroom when a public school lesson uses LGBTQ-themed storybooks. The 6-3...

Picture books are not usually the stuff of Supreme Court rulings. But on Friday, a majority of justices ruled that parents have a right to opt their children out of...