Claudia Goldin won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2023 — only the third woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics and the very first to win it on her own. And it's no mystery why. Please watch the ...

Hilary Mantel’s “The Mirror and the Light,” a new “Bridget Jones” and Michael Bond’s Paddington Bear series are some of this ...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of the Sherlock Holmes series, might seem like the most rational man ever who was capable ...

Every January 1 in the Books department, we like to make an extra toast for a concurrent holiday: Public Domain Day.

Even in the 21st-century digital age, books haven’t lost their importance; they are still a reliable source for gathering information. Although we can now carry thousands of e-books on mobile devices ...

Adaptations of Holmes stories are exploding now that the detective is in the public domain. Critics believe it should have ...

The panel featured Alia Al Shamsi, an Emirati author and illustrator; Geraldine Alebeo, Representative of the French Board on Books for Young People (FBBY); and moderated by Anne-Laure Cognet. The ...

There are as many as 300 societies dedicated to Sherlock Holmes. Devotees of the detective call themselves Sherlockians or Holmesians. There is some division in their ranks as to how the terms ...

Q. What was the first book that made an impression on you? It was probably a kids’ illustrated version of “Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles.” I was maybe six or seven when I ...