Books

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.

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.