When the Medicare open-enrollment season for 2026 starts on October 15, brace yourself for some big, and potentially costly, changes. Premium hikes for both medical and drug coverage, shrinking ...

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I read George Eliot’s “Middlemarch,” sometimes hailed as the greatest British novel, in a rain forest in western Indonesia. I was there as a graduate student, spending my days slogging through mud and ...

On the last Saturday of August, I began my morning with The New York Times, which carried yet another story about the decline of reading across the country. Over the past two decades, the share of ...

A 2012 stroke has largely kept him from acting, but not from writing — and recording — a new memoir. “It was very peculiar not to be able to speak,” he says. “It felt like somebody had paddled around ...

Kamala Harris is on a ridiculous, 15-city “international” book tour, during which she tells the gullible women who line up for hours to see her that she only missed out on being president by a whisker ...

Charlotte is diving headfirst into the Halloween spirit, offering plenty of thrills and scares over the next month. With haunted mazes, ghost tours, costume parties and bar crawls, there’s no shortage ...

In 1989, director Tim Burton delivered Batman, which saw Michael Keaton’s title character clashing with Jack Nicholson’s Joker. While not the first superhero movie by any stretch or even the first ...

Few projects in Grand Designs history have captured the public imagination quite like the North Devon lighthouse — a 15-year labour of love that became a cautionary tale of overreaching dreams.

Reading achievement has been stagnant in the US for decades, raising questions about what other methods might work to help ...

In Japan, there’s a term for this phenomenon: tsundoku.

Is book banning contributing to declining literacy rates? That's the question addressed in a new paper by Danielle Dennis, ...