Marie Curie worked with radioactive material with her bare hands. More than 100 years later, Sophie Hardach travels to Paris ...

The Guinness World Records (GWR), originally known as the Guinness Book of Records, is believed to be the last word on record-breaking accomplishments, and it all began as a collection of facts to ...

If you're seeking some inspiration for your summer reading list, here are my top 10 reads of 2025 so far, featuring a variety ...

Opinion About that word, and about those books Any serious high school student knows that even literature that entertains can land with a wallop. It exists to challenge. To ask hard questions. To ...

An art dealer in Santa Fe named Forrest Fenn sparked a global mania to find a chest filled with gold he buried in the Rockies ...

The Book Barn in Denville, New Jersey is a 100% all-volunteer run non-profit. It is quickly becoming a hidden gem destination for book lovers from all over.

LANGUAGE ON VACATION by Dmitri A. Borgmann. 318 pages. Scribner. $6.95. Subbookkeeper is the only English word that contains four successive pairs of letters. Triennially is one of the very few ...

WHAT A WORD!—A. P. Herbert—Doubleday, Doran ($2).Since the days when Don Quixote went out and charged a windmill many a man has gone crusading for his crotchets. In the pages of ...

Woman who can remember every single day of her life and recite every word of all SEVEN Harry Potter books reveals the 'awful' downside of her ability ...

As part of Banned Books Week, D.C. readers are encouraged to search the city for six books pulled from the shelves of schools and libraries in states like Texas and Florida.

Sarah Ogilvie’s book tells the stories of the people who contributed word definitions during the creation of the world’s first etymological dictionary.