WRITING

For readers young and old.

You can thank us later for creating your reading list for the next five years.

Whether they were stolen, destroyed, or locked in a time capsule, you won’t see these books on the shelves.

A new analysis shows that we're more error-prone during the first day of the work week—and that these mistakes affect response rate.

"My parents were always uncertain and it really doesn't matter. I celebrate January 2, 1920, so let it be."

Some of our favorite historical figures were born in the month of December. We couldn't possibly name them all, but here are just a handful whose lives we'll be celebrating.

T.S. Eliot is best known for writing "The Waste Land," but the Nobel Prize winner was also a prankster who coined a perennially popular curse word and created the characters brought to life in the Broadway musical "Cats."

As one of the founding fathers of science fiction, Herbert George Wells certainly had a lot to say about the human race.

The long list includes bacon, peach cobbler, and possum.

On May 30, 1593, the writer arrived at a lodging house for drinks with friends and never emerged.

And what happens if we apply them sideways?

Bob Dylan—the legendary artist formerly known as Robert Zimmerman—has spent the past 50-plus years trying to keep a low profile.