Like people, words have birthdays. My definition of the birthday of a word is the year in which it first appeared in a ...

So you haven't read the Hobbit? Well, you're in for a dragon-sized treat! J. R. R. Tolkien's classic novel was the inspiration for so many works of literature and art that came after it. It drafted ...

Love 'The Lord Of The Rings'? Love some solid classic rock and folk music? These J.R.R. Tolkien music references can't be beat.

Her resulting book, “The Atlas of Middle-earth” (1981), wowed Tolkien fans and scholars with its exquisite level of topographic detail; the most recent paperback edition is in its 32nd printing.

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Here are Parade’s 116 Best Kids books of all time, according to indie booksellers from across the country; acclaimed authors like Brian Selznick, Rita Williams-Garcia, Dav Pilkey, Katherine ...

These include monstership —as in, “Your monstership”; bemonster, meaning “to treat someone like a monster”; monsterfy, “to ...

Slowly but surely, linguistic communities are benefiting from initiatives to promote local languages. A French–Ewe dictionary ...

In the literary world, this year is shaping up to be a good one for fans of cultural criticism: There are new books about Better Call Saul and biographies of James Gandolfini and Lorne Michaels on ...

(What? Just me?) There’s no such thing as an excess of good books, but the roster of forthcoming publications is certainly staggering. Fiction lovers have much to look forward to, with incoming ...