Books

Three Philadelphia libraries now have "play-and-learn space," designed to bust up the old notion that libraries are quiet places.

Producer: Karen Smyles Friday Arts visits the campus of The University of Pennsylvania for an interview with Mich ...

In his new memoir, Black Klansman, he tells the story of how he hoodwinked the Ku Klux Klan into thinking he was one of them.

Speaking at a book tour event in Philadelphia, former president Bill Clinton said that if it wasn’t for ...

Choose your own adventure with these book club offerings in Philadelphia and beyond.

Guests: Tom McAllister, Steven Berkowitz The aftermath of a school shooting is the subject of Philadelphia author ...

The deadline approaches to clear the addicted from the encampments in Kensington.  Local author Peter Moskowitz (How to Kill a City) ta ...

A new children’s book from a Philadelphia author focuses on a mother-daughter bond told by a young girl who delights in wearing an Islamic headscarf.

The World Health Organization also estimates that between 72,000 and 169,000 children may die each year because of substandard or fake antibiotics.

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.