The sport of angling ("angle" is an old work for "hook") was a popular 1600s pastime that had a number of guides written about it. Wikimedia Commons “God did never make a more calm, quiet, innocent ...

Today, Sotheby’s will auction a copy of the first English-language book printed in America. “The Whole Booke of Psalmes,” or the Bay Psalm Book, as it is now known, is expected to sell for between ...

We’re asking because the reading scores of American 12th graders are at record lows. By Dana Goldstein When you were in high school, did your English teacher assign you full books to read from ...

A month into 2020, most people are still staying home. After they tear through everything on Netflix and Hulu, many are turning to the pages of books to occupy their minds. Grab a cup of tea and a ...

You really have to admire an 18th-century novel that can get literary critics to write essays that include the words "inadvertent circumcision inflicted by the descent of the sash-window" and "a hot ...