Books

America's first coffee-table book, circa 1800, showed Philadelphia as the world's next great city.

Guests: Alan Stern, David Grinspoon NASA’s New Horizons spaceship launched in 2006 to visit tiny Pluto at edge ...

Young's new book, Brown, is colored by memories from his family and childhood, United States history, and black culture.

Camden's king of haiku poetry - Nick Virgilio - now has a writers house named after him.

Photographer and Drexel professor Andrea Modica photographed Mummer wenches, one day a year for 10 years.

Shanti Gamper-Rabindran a University of Pittsburgh professor and editor of The Shale Dilemma, sat down for an interview about the topic.

It's mid-afternoon when Irby walks in, a man on a mission. He needs a trim from his go-to barber, Kenny, but he also wants to check in on his 15 books.

Abadi's new cookbook, Too Good To Passover, collects Passover recipes from nearly two dozen countries.

MIN JIN LEE’s new novel, PACHINKO, chronicles four generations of ...

Acting U.S. attorney general was fired by Trump over stand against travel ban.

  New York Review of Books’ editor IAN BURUMA, knew almost ...

As Pennsylvania’s gas boom helps propel the United States away from coal-fired power, one energy researcher says the impact on climate change will be a wash.

During the day Susan Benarcik is an urban gardener, she loves nature and the outdoors, during the winter months she brings both indoors through her artwork.

A new book about a Kensington veterans club is a small peephole onto the national stage.

One of the country’s oldest book fairs devoted to African-American children's literature returned to Philadelphia Saturday for its 26th year.