For the novelist Rebecca Makkai, writing blurbs had become nearly a full-time job. She explains why blurbs matter — and why ...

In “Nobody’s Empire,” the debut novel from Belle and Sebastian singer and songwriter Stuart Murdoch, a young Scottish man ...

I cried the first time I listened to the Belle and Sebastian song "Nobody's Empire." From the 2015 album "Girls in Peacetime ...

In “The Age of Choice,” Sophia Rosenfeld questions whether choosing — what to buy, whom to vote for — is actually worth it.

What we know after American Airlines plane crashes with Black Hawk helicopter in Washington, D.C. If you and your partner use ...

I think that’s why my books tend to begin as first sentences—I’ll write that opening sentence first, and when I get it right, ...

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 ...

Stephen A. Smith offered a less than stellar review of President Joe Biden’s farewell speech, telling NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo it just made him “sad.” Smith argued “not a lot of ...

Kansas City Chief Travis Kelce joined Stephen A. Smith on Wednesday night on the Stephen A. Smith Show, and the conversation naturally turned to the tight end’s high-profile personal life.

In a blog post on Tuesday, the popular author said he has read the allegations and felt “horror and dismay”. He wrote: “I’ve stayed quiet until now, both out of respect for the people who ...

The couple's children said they often went for months without bathing and were seriously malnourished, the arrest report alleged A Florida-based children’s book author and her husband are ...