Eugenio Alliata's office in Jerusalem resembles any archaeology workshop that prefers fieldwork. On the overcrowded shelves, ...

“I See You’ve Called in Dead” follows a middle-aged depressive who rediscovers life’s joys, with a little help from his friends. Steve Oney’s engaging and deeply reported “On Air ...

The question of whether Jesus spoke and taught in Greek has, at times in the past, been a subject of serious debate. But for ...

Official history asserts that the Jewish people have existed continuously from the time of Abraham to the present day, thanks ...

Neither Sarah nor Hagar/Ha-jar are mentioned by name in the Qur’an, but the story of Ha-jar’s exile from Abraham’s home is traditionally understood to be referred to in a line from Ibrāhīm’s prayer in ...

A prayer book that once belonged to notorious killer Dr Crippen who poisoned and dismembered his wife before burying her remains beneath their home has been sold at auction. The leather-bound book ...

The China Yearbook, available in both Chinese and English, emerged as one of the highlights at the London Book Fair held from March 11 to 13. As a definitive chronicle of China's development ...

By The New York Times Books Staff In his new book, David Szalay offers unvarnished scenes from a lonely, rags-to-riches life. By Dwight Garner Two new books use divergent styles to look at mind ...

With his first book since winning the Nobel Prize in literature in 2021, Burnah focuses on three young people — an ambitious college student returning home, his female friend looking for a way ...

Also known as the Afghan Siddur, the diminutive prayer book measures five inches by five inches and “is comprised of prayers, poems, and pages of the oldest discovered Passover Haggadah ...

The prayer below, which Dave wrote for our book, The Prayer Book for Tired Parents, purely and simply spells out a father’s desire for holiness that has transformed our family. He has seen the f ...