The Krewe of Thoth, “the biggest little krewe in Carnival,” reveled at their 77 th annual Carnival Saturday at the Pontchartrain Center in Kenner with a tableau of “Thoth’s Bucket List ...

Read an excerpt below, and don't miss Ian Frazier discussing the Bronx with Susie Essman on "CBS Sunday Morning" January 26! The Bronx is a hand reaching down to pull the other boroughs of New ...

Read an excerpt below, and don't miss Marvin Kalb's commentary about a potential Trump-Putin summit on "CBS Sunday Morning" February 16! Kennedy proved to be Khrushchev's last chance for a ...

Read the book's prologue below, and don't miss Mo Rocca's interview with Susan Morison on "CBS Sunday Morning" February 16! Every week at Saturday Night Live is just like every other week.

Read an excerpt below. Prefer to listen ... The one who only needed to be told once by a teacher to open a book to a specific page. The teenager who drove strictly within the limits of her ...

The story of Hannah and Shane Burcaws’ relationship and others like it is captured in their new book, "Interabled: True Stories about Love and Disability." They joined The Excerpt to talk about ...

Professor Atuahene’s new book Plundered: How Racist Policies Undermine Black Homeownership in America (out now by Little, Brown and Company) begins with the following anecdote, which has been ...

On Saturday’s episode of The Excerpt podcast: Thousands have been fired across the federal workforce, as President Donald Trump and Elon Musk escalate their government purge. In this week's ...

February's writer-curator on Something I Heard, Diane Raptosh, reads an excerpt from "What We Ask of Flesh" by Remica Bingham-Risher.

One of the earliest recorded breaks between orality and literacy in the ‘West’ is dramatised in Plato’s Phaedrus, where — perhaps recollecting an older shift from hunting-gathering to agrarian ...

After she was killed, colleagues ensured publication of her unfinished book. By Rebecca Donner Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. A new book by the journalist ...

A new book by the journalist Katherine Stewart finds a far-right movement seething in resentment, suspicious of reason and determined to dominate at all costs. By Jennifer Szalai Plenty of ...