After baffling scholars for over a century, Cambridge researchers have reinterpreted the long-lost Song of Wade, revealing it to be a chivalric romance rather than a monster-filled myth. The twist ...

Last week, the World Health Organization declared loneliness a public health threat on the scale of smoking or obesity.

A medieval sermon packed with 'memes' and simple spelling mistakes could explain a baffling line in 'The Canterbury Tales.' ...

In “Nothing More of This Land,” journalist Joseph Lee writes about the past, present and future of the Aquinnah Wampanoag.

Trees take centuries to respond to change. But climate change is moving much faster, and forests may not survive the gap.

The discomfort of loneliness shapes us in ways we don’t recognize—and we may not like what we become without it.

Cien Años de Soledad (that’s One Hundred Years of Solitude for English readers) was released in 1967, has sold more than 50 million copies and has been translated into 46 languages. Reading this tome ...

Accessing reading material in prisons is hard, but Freedom Reads co-founder Reginald Betts, a former inmate, went beyond ...

With long sunlight hours and lack of required readings for class, summer offers the perfect time to pick up a new book. The ...

Building Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s world in ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ took years and thousands of Colombians to recreate it.

When One Hundred Years of Solitude was released, Gabriel Garcia Márquez was 40 years old and had published only one previous novel. He’d spent much of his early writing career as a journalist.