After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth-grade class pulled out their pencils to practice writing the letters in ...

It’s a great day to be Paul Thomas Anderson. Thomas Pynchon—postmodern novelist and the inspiration behind multiple PTA films—is back. Penguin Random House just confirmed that the author has a new ...

Featuring a Depression-era private eye, “Shadow Ticket” will be the 87-year-old writer’s first book since 2013.

Cuneiform, the oldest identified writing system, defied deciphering – until 1857. What happened then makes a terrific read, ...