FICTION PICK OF THE WEEK Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret Benjamin Stevenson Penguin, $29.99 ...

Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...

Picture a haunted house in which all your décor is old books that have been torn or cut up to become new items. Wait, that doesn't sound bad or scary at all, actually. If you find ripping up or ...

Picture a haunted house in which all your décor is old books that have been torn or cut up to become new items. Wait, that doesn't sound bad or scary at all, actually. If you find ripping up or ...

The first five books of the Bible, often referred to as the Pentateuch or Torah, are foundational texts for Judaism and Christianity. They provide instructions for moral and ethical living, and they ...

“All this is going in my book,” he told reporters at City Hall ... needed was a firm hand and some law and order. Like the old bosses of Tammany Hall, Adams claimed to understand and represent ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. Ruins are a theme in this week’s recommended books, from the collapse of the Victoria’s Secret lingerie empire to the lives ...

It is a few songs in before Annie Clark, aka St Vincent, breaks focus to greet the Sunday faithful, and with her tender tone, it’s as if she is talking to old friends. In a way she is ...

Rosenblum, a professor of religious studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has written three other books on Jews and food, has spent 20 years pondering the question, “Why the pig?” ...

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To give a proper perspective on the New Covenant sacrament of reconciliation instituted by Christ, we will explore the Old Testament prefiguration of this sacrament. In the next column ...