And I want to be an up-to-date, informed reader. I want to feel that seductive rush of smug pride when someone mentions a popular book in conversation and I’ve read it cover to cover. So, on a ...

Vox Book Club, The Secret History, week 2: How to cover up a murder You know things are getting rough when Henry wants a television.

Luckily the keen eye of the artist has captured precise details when depicting books throughout history, showing sewing structures, stitch types, supports, covers and even how they were stored.

Having authored other books such as The Penguin History of Europe and The Penguin History of the 20th Century, this work remains his most original and best-known.

I'm a bit of a history nerd, and I've always been fascinated by the "secret cities" that existed in America during World War II. One of those government-operated cities is in what is now Oak Ridge ...

When Donna Tartt was writing her debut novel, The Secret History – an endeavour that took her eight years – she wasn't convinced there would be much of an audience for it. Here was a book both ...

From Grover Cleveland to John F. Kennedy and Donald Trump, examples abound of presidential maladies being minimized or kept secret.

A boy propelled into a mystery-riddled adventure after finding a watch that renders its wearer invisible stars in Trenton Lee Stewart's 'The Secret Keepers,' whose cover is revealed here.

Author Donna Tartt’s debut novel, The Secret History, became an instant classic—and an instant success—when it was published in 1992. “Book publishers, moviemakers, and glossy magazines ...

A rare sequel to the legendary tale of Merlin and King Arthur was found on a medieval manuscript that had been stitched together and repurposed as a book cover.

There are some books that serve as milestones in our lives, evocations of a particular time and place tucked between the timeworn covers. For me, The Secret History is one of those. As a teenage ...

When Donna Tartt was writing her debut novel, The Secret History – an endeavour that took her eight years – she wasn't convinced there would be much of an audience for it. Here was a book both ...