The Frick Collection presents "Vermeer’s Love Letters," an exhibition showcasing three rare epistolary paintings by Johannes ...

Next year our nation will celebrate the 250th anniversary of our Declaration of Independence from then world super power ...

There's something about new novels that makes me forget about all my worries and (sadly) all of the unread books on my ...

Three filmmakers dive into the battles that both united and divided the women’s liberation movement of the 1970s, as ...

Over 10 years ago, when life became hard, Ellen Webster set out to bring in some light, one handwritten letter at a time.

Do you consider yourself a logophile, a linguaphile or even a lexiphile?  I think I might be one.  You see, it’s all about loving words.  Goofy words, serious words, lovely words, deadly words. ...

After long days focused on the facts, our newsroom reads a lot of fiction at home. We asked our NPR colleagues what they've ...

Redfin reports that America’s housing is aging, with few new homes built, driving up prices in cities like Buffalo and New ...

Christy Emmanuel can trace one family line to 1234. Those who followed are tied to U.S. history and now chronicled in a ...

Rachel Cusk, Leslie Jamison and other contemporary authors dissect failed marriage, relationships that survive from inertia, ...

Adelaide Beeman-White crafts her own Victorian clothing, writes with dip pens, and has neighbors wondering about the "Mary ...

Miriam Schapiro was born in 1923 in Toronto, Canada, to Russian Jewish parents, but she was brought up in Brooklyn, New York.