BOOKS

The work was commissioned by magician Harry Houdini.

Bibliophiles with a taste for adventure and mystery will love the Biblio-Mat.

“An American bard at last!” he declared of himself in an anonymous review.

On March 10, 1982, a certain facet of people were bracing for a series of global disasters—earthquakes, tidal waves, and violent storms—that they believed would be caused by an alignment of all nine planets.

Podcaster and YouTuber Simon Whistler has cracked the case of who responds to Sherlock Holmes’s fan mail. (Spoiler: It's not Dr. Watson.)

To understand the concept of literature, we have to travel back to the 18th century.

The average page length has increased by 115 percent in the past decade.

The Moravian Book Shop in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, has been around since 1745—and has picked up a resident ghost along the way.

Paulo Coelho's allegorical novel has sold over 65 million copies. What made 'The Alchemist' such a blockbuster?

Set in 1979, the books will follow the adventures of teenage versions of Mulder and Scully.

Until 2015's 'Go Set a Watchman,' the late, great Pulitzer Prize-winning author Harper Lee was known as a literary one-hit wonder.

Tolkien scholar Wayne Hammond has tracked down two of the writer’s previously unseen poems.