NPR's Scott Simon talks to Daniyal Mueenuddin about his debut novel, "This is Where the Serpent Lives." It's a sprawling ...

Bret Easton Ellis' classic novel American Psycho is the latest book to get a lavish illustrated edition from The Folio Society, and it even comes with a replica of Patrick Bateman's business card.

Indian Bengali writer Amitav Ghosh has been writing about empire, the environment, and other subjects for the past 25 years.

From "James" to "Demon Copperhead," literary retellings are having a moment. Xiaolu Guo joins the ranks with her latest ...

What do we really want in a home? Comfort, clarity, calm? Drama, decoration, delight? While you can never go wrong consulting design and decorating books as a source of gorgeous inspiration, you can ...

In just 120 pages, Perfection captures millennial malaise, design lust and the inevitable disappointment when the perfect home — or life — proves impossible to achieve. “This is the book of the summer ...

On the first day of a required class for freshman design majors at Carnegie Mellon, my professor stood in front of a lecture hall of earnest, nervous undergraduates and asked, “Who here thinks that ...

For those hunting for something that will appeal to the design or architecture enthusiasts on their holiday gift lists, a bevy of new books give a glimpse into both public and private spaces in ...

Challenges and bans to books in public libraries and schools in the U.S. have steeply increased since 2022. What is behind this increase? And what do Stanford faculty have to say about it? Although ...