I went to visit my best friend from college and fell in love — with her library. It was meticulously organized, yet outright pretty, with cascading shelves of hardcovers in coordinating colors. I ...

Melinda started 2nd grade with everything against her. She lives in poverty, her mom is not literate in English or Spanish, and she was severely abused at the age of 6. At the beginning of the year, ...

Have you always dreamed of having a home library? Books lining the walls from floor to ceiling, a Beauty-and-the-Beast-style ...

A 7-year-old boy got a happy surprise at the Columbus Public Library on Wednesday when he realized that books could be taken home for free. “Our hearts immediately fell in love,” said Jeannine A.

"I had always yearned for a double-height library, since books are my life," wrote author Andrew Solomon in our September 2017 story about the restoration of his crumbling New York City townhouse, a ...

On a rainy spring morning in Muncie, Indiana, a White, middle-aged, conservative woman met a transgender woman for a date. It did not start well. The transgender woman was waiting at a table when the ...

“Maybe something’s wrong with me,” the novelist Adriana Trigiani said on a sweltering morning earlier this summer at her home in Greenwich Village, “but I think books are show business. Storytelling ...