Martin Scorsese’s spectacular, gorgeously adapted version of The Invention of Hugo Cabret is ... as well as full page art, and the style is all consistent with comic books and comic layouts ...

Take the school backpack, for example. Its invention can be traced to one man, Murray McCory, who died last month. McCory ...

A young orphan named Hugo Cabret lives in a train station in 1930s ... who help him understand the mystery of his dad's invention.

This innovative book argues that documents such as passports ... individuals’ own notions of where they want to go and where they prefer to remain … The Invention of the Passport is not just about ...

By Catherine Hong The Coming of the ‘Messiah’: How Handel’s Masterpiece Was Born John Adams reviews “Every Valley,” Charles King’s new book about ... of ideas and invention hidden ...

Decorating your house for Halloween is a tradition for many, but some of the D.C. region’s residents go the extra mile to ...

“I’d never been around white people before and never been that cold before.” That’s just one of the revelations in his new children’s book, “Winning and Grinning: Walt Clyde Frazier: Knicks Legend and ...

By Dwight Garner Three new books make the case for music as medicine. In “The Schubert Treatment,” the most lyrical of the trio, a cellist takes us bedside with the sick and the dying.

However, almost a quarter of the respondents said they no longer made books the center of their curriculum. The slow disappearance of full-length books in the classroom is a multifaceted problem ...

The fiction, nonfiction and poetry that shifted our perspectives, uncovered essential truths and encouraged us forward Annabel Gutterman, Cady Lang, Arianna Rebolini and Lucas Wittmann This ...

Lila Pereira, a successful media executive, rises to the top of her career but has to reckon with her youngest daughter, Grace, resenting her for not being a PTA mom. Grace also dredges up the ...

Taschen has published a new book called The Computer, which traces the evolution of machines in computer history. Written by German author and graphic designer Jens Müller and edited by Brazilian ...