Nursery rhymes teach children all manner of things using the language of poetry, writes Australian author and researcher ...

On the whole, these books “present divorce as liberation and marriage as oppressive,” Molly Fischer writes in this week’s ...

Birthdays are often marked with a party. Members of the Greensboro Newcomers Club chose instead to celebrate its 71st ...

We participate in political memes to express our anxiety that whatever is coming next might be even more chaotic than what is ...

While in Gaza an intensifying series of air strikes killing hundreds of Palestinians does not constitute an act of war, the ...

He looks like a bearded baby or Humpty Dumpty. Sometimes, he is holding a lollipop and wearing a child’s baseball cap with a propeller affixed to the top. One meme takes his edited baby face and ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. We bring you a true grab bag of recommended books this week, united by little besides excellence and interest. There’s a ...