Reading Notes to John, a new and much-discussed posthumous selection of Joan Didion’s writing, I thought over and over of ...

Pope Francis died Monday at the age of 88. As tributes pour in from around the world, the Vatican faces a transition.

Pope Francis has died, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the ...

Pope Francis has passed away on April 21, Cardinal Kevin Farrell announced on the Vatican's TV channel. The Roman Catholic Church's first Latin American head, Pope Francis was 88 and had recently ...

When the cause of liberty seemed most fragile, and its defenders most alone, a man named Thomas Paine picked up his pen and ...

A federal program that screens coal miners for black lung disease has been shuttered because of layoffs and budget cuts.

What would Joan Didion think about the new book “Notes to John?” The fresh release from Knopf is a collection of Didion’s ...

Drawn from her previously unpublished reflections on sessions with a therapist, “Notes to John” is at once slightly sordid ...

In "Medicine River," Mary Annette Pember grapples with the harrowing legacy of boarding schools for Native Americans and the ...