Jim Mardin was about to dig into a heaping slice of cake at his 103rd birthday party when a voice shouted out for him to stop. "Everybody come on! We've got to sing happy birthday," Mardin's friend ...

Ease your unease with an abortion fundraiser and a film reminding us the Nazis lost, plus Jordana, Universal Language, and ...

Major Mike Sadler, who died aged 103 at the start of last year, joined the elite Special Air Service after it was formed by ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris has a lot of options for her next act — including possible runs for governor of California in 2026 and president in 2028 — but writing a book may be ...

(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 ...

Former Manchester City captain Tony Book has died at the age of 90. One of the most successful players in the club's golden era of the late 1960s and early 1970s, Book won domestic and European ...

Creating a roundup of the 25 best-selling books of all time is harder than it sounds. Books—especially those published hundreds of years ago—were published in different editions and translated ...

After the fierce battles in the Falaise Pocket in August 1944, the remaining German Army units in Normandy were in full blown retreat for the relative safety of the eastern bank of the River Seine.

Saving Private Ryan is set in 1944 in Normandy, France and focuses on a group of soldiers on a mission to find Private James Francis Ryan after his three brothers were killed in action.

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. Our recommended books this week tilt heavily toward European culture and history, with a new history of the Vikings, a group ...

This much anticipated novel comes from the mind of Pulitzer-Prize and National Book Award finalist, Laila Lalami. The brilliantly twisted piece of literary science fiction is a timely examination ...