Books

It is a well-known truth among linguists that so long as English is changing — which it always is — there will be people who are belly-aching about it, warning that if things keep going...

When Africans from the Gold Coast staged a series of revolts and conspiracies in the 17th and 18th centuries, they created an archipelago of insurrection stretching throughout the North Atlantic Americas

Jeanine Cummins' highly anticipated fourth book, American Dirt, opens with the kind of massacre that has become terribly familiar to those forced to live in the cross fire of Mexican drug cartels. At her niece's...

"Folklore," Zora Neale Hurston wrote in an essay, "is the boiled-down juice of human living." It was this deep interest in the lives and stories of the black community that led Hurston, who grew up...

If he is in bed by 9 p.m., Steve Inskeep can get six hours of sleep before the alarm. He's due at NPR's Washington, D.C., headquarters at 4 a.m. for the live broadcast of Morning...

The world's most popular living author in Spanish on not fearing death and the forgotten event behind her new novel Your new novel, A Long Petal of the Sea, centers on a historical event: in...