The material on the covers of books from a French abbey was too hairy to have come from calves or other local mammals.

The books hail from Clairvaux Abbey, founded in 1115 by Cistercian monks in northern France, and its daughter monasteries. Some tomes are nearly 900 years old. Researchers had thought they were ...

A Life, writer Jamie Hood references Sehgal’s essay, A Little Life, coming to terms with yourself in the wake of unimaginable ...

Fenton historian Allie Seibert investigates five historical murder cases from 1879 to 1931, including the notorious Flint case of Helen Morgan who killed her ex-lover in a cemetery.

These two cheap Kindle accessories turned my room into a cozy reading oasis — and they’re less than $50 combined.

When Lytton Strachey set out to write “Eminent Victorians” in 1918, he sought to enliven the stuffy Victorian conventions of ...

The burned out Spanish Trail motel on the southern edge of South Tucson again caught fire this weekend. A fire in the shell of the former motel, 305 East Benson Highway, burst into flames about 9 ...

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But there’s hope: Amazon’s Big Spring Sale is happening right now, meaning you can finally retire that sad college sweatshirt you should’ve burned five years ago and do it without blowing ...

Trump’s people have figured out that attention spans in the modern world are right up there with gnats. Who reads any more?

But the money dried up, and the high cost of renting elsewhere led them to return with other tenants to the burn zone and an apartment complex that an insurance company deemed “uninhabitable.” ...

That evacuation order has since been lifted. The Pauline Road Fire has burned 2,360 acres so far. In an update Thursday afternoon, officials said it is 45% contained. SkyEye flew over the area ...