Back in August, we shared a Bay Area Proud story with a mystery at its heart. It began not in California, but in New Jersey, ...

So, here are five trips for book lovers to take across America. Baltimore Book Festival: A multi-day celebration of readers ...

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The 76th National Book Awards was a night of sobering speeches, soft acoustic performances and bookworms getting down on the ...

Developers behind three proposed new apartment complexes in Berkeley plan to use a California housing law to exempt ...

Receiving and sending letters is like dancing, each partner taking turns in a reliable rhythm across time and distance, ...

A Pennsylvania couple's private love letters are on their way back home, thanks to the kindness of a stranger and some online sleuthing. With the penny going away, what should you do with the ones in ...

The stacks at Harvard’s Widener Library are, I have come to believe, the best place to hide if you want to spend an afternoon reading uninterrupted but not alone. Widener has that rare charm conferred ...

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado needs nuclear energy to address emissions cost-effectively Re: “Is nuclear power becoming cool in Colorado?” Oct. 13 news story Judith Kohler’s ...

The prolific novelist’s correspondence, collected for the first time, trace a life of literary brilliance, turbulent loves and everyday pleasures. By Dwight Garner When you purchase an independently ...

Here are this week’s letters to the editor of the Herald Times Reporter. See our letters policy below for details about how to share your views. Think of the country you would not like to visit or, ...