In a new book, the historian Kim Phillips-Fein chronicles a “shadow tradition” of anti-egalitarians who fought against America’s founding ideals. By Jennifer Szalai Blending autobiography with ...

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The final installment of his Harlem crime trilogy is full of heists, cultural shifts and nostalgia for 1980s New York. By Dwight Garner In “The Mortons,” a young hit woman — a prodigy at killing — is ...

Young children whose parents read them five books a day enter kindergarten having heard about 1.4 million more words than kids who were never read to, a new study found. This 'million word gap' could ...

I remember the first time I picked up Shel Silverstein’s Where the Sidewalk Ends in my elementary school library. It was filled with delightfully clever and funny rhymes, and the words danced off my ...