Celebrating the black writer Dorothy West’s home on Martha’s Vineyard.

A growing chorus suggests that the once-revered doctor-patient relationship is on the rocks.

Peer into its molecules, and glass is indiscernible from a liquid. So how can it be hard? And how does it get that way? For scientists, the puzzle persists.

What does it mean to read in a digital age? Here are links to some studies, speeches, reading tests — old and new — and other resources.

A digital resurrection allows Yeats to stride again along the hinge of the 19th and 20th centuries.

A reserved writer who has been compared to Emily Dickinson, Ms. Ryan has been chosen to succeed Charles Simic as the nation’s 16th poet laureate

Billy Joel, the unambiguously aging pop star, brings a Long Island attitude to Shea’s goodbye.

Social scientists have learned that there is power in tying certain behaviors to habitual cues through relentless advertising.

There was a crazy rumour going around last year that Daniel Craig was going to keep his shirt on for his second Bond movie.

Newly discovered genetic variations could predict who needs more folic acid.