The New York Public Library got an unexpected gift the week before Christmas - an overdue library book checked out from the ...
A book was returned to the NYPL after 72 years, sparing the borrower's son late fees as the library abolished fines in 2021.
Chilling video footage captures the moment bystanders run for their lives during a brazen shooting at a Bronx bodega Monday that wounded six — including a mom who was used as a human shield ...
Sister Aloysius is the indomitable headteacher of a Catholic school in the Bronx in 1964, who suspects that one of the ...
This is a difficult work to describe, leave alone classify. Take the title. It suggests that the author’s great-grandfather (the titular character) had possibly a consequence comparable to that of the ...
Some habits are hard to break. “The Hub” in the Bronx was drug-riddled business as usual a day after a Post exposé on the armies of junkies and depravity consuming the commercial corridor.
Rosie is a freelance writer living in London. She has covered everything from ancient Egyptian temples to exciting medical breakthroughs, but she particularly enjoys writing about wildlife ...
I also read Hurricane Season (2017, Fitzcarraldo Editions) by Fernanda Melchor, a Mexican writer. I don’t know if I should recommend the book because it’s so disturbing and brutal but also utterly ...
Sony Pictures has partnered with Studio CHIZU and Nippon TV to co-produce and co-finance “Scarlet,” the new animated feature from Academy Award-nominated Japanese director Mamoru Hosoda.
When I taught high-school English, I loved planning out the syllabus, book by book. Once chosen, one novel might lead naturally to another; certain titles seemed to go with certain seasons.
During the siege, one of the British hostages picked up a copy of Frederick Forsyth’s thriller The Day of the Jackal and read the whole book. “Bloody excellent,” was the verdict of Ron ...