Our love of the supernatural reflects a "natural human impulse" to find meaning in a chaotic world, experts say.

What's driving a renewed push for book banning? And what can parents, educators, and librarians do in response?

A new book explores how a history of rejection shaped African American literature and activism for generations to come.

A new book features 100 previously unknown drawings by Franz Kafka. They "show us a much more cheerful side" to the famous novelist and short story writer.

People reading novels on their Kindle are more likely to highlight passages with a linguistic device called the generic "you." Here's why.

People reading novels on their Kindle are more likely to highlight passages with a linguistic device called the generic "you." Here's why.

Behind the feel-good gloss and redemption of A Christmas Carol, lies an uncompromising message about wealth and inequality, a new book argues.

"There is a haunting effect of old maps," says the author of a new book on maps and their power to illuminate the colonial past (and present).

A new collection of Ernest Hemingway's letters show him harshly critiquing his friend F. Scott Fitzgerald and feuding with Gertrude Stein and others.

For decades, the FBI kept tabs Black writers, artists, and activists, with agents reading their work closely and even creating their own misleading works.