SHIP BOTTOM, N.J. -- A woman reading a book on an Ocean County beach was struck by a trash truck Wednesday morning. Authorities say the 38-year-old woman from Toronto, Canada was lying in the sand at ...

I was 16 years old when I graduated high school and moved to New York to model. I knew I would be invited into rooms with brilliant, older people, and I was both curious and self-conscious—I wanted to ...

Women also seem to be reading and buying more fiction than men at Harvard Book Store, book buyer Melissa Sagendorph told me. “Women are obviously responsible for the huge explosion and popularity of ...

Source: Melissa Rampelli, personal photograph, 2025 Calm and contemplative, Mary Magdalene reclines on a floor of packed dirt and stone, propping herself up on her right elbow, temple cradled in palm, ...

A second-hand copy of the controversial novel Lolita has gone viral for the unnerving inscription written inside. The 1955 novel by Vladimir Nabokov revolves around a man who marries a woman to get to ...

Until a couple of years ago, Lucy Calkins was, to many American teachers and parents, a minor deity. Thousands of U.S. schools used her curriculum, called Units of Study, to teach children to read and ...