Houston Grand Opera will open Il trovatore, Verdi's iconic masterpiece, in a new production from leading director Stephen Wadsworth. The production will offer a fresh vision of the composer's ...

Verdi's Rigoletto will return to the Metropolitan Opera starring reigning Verdi baritone Quinn Kelsey, and soprano Nadine ...

As the scholar Emily Van Duyne, the author of a new biography on Plath, wrote in 2020, “No one ever asks when we will be ...

A massive, two-volume coffee table book revisits the heyday of classic Hollywood glamour as seen in Life magazine.

A massive, two-volume coffee table book revisits the heyday of classic ... Has ‘The Power Broker’ Had Such a Long Life? In his biography of a city bureaucrat, Robert Caro created a lasting ...

Carrie Rickey's 'A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda' is a part of her mission to celebrate female ...

This is a classically shaped biography, from childhood through presidency, with plenty of analysis in the mix. Bren’s acclaimed previous book, “The Barbizon,” told the story of a famous ...

When children are very young, they will — even if they’re wiggling — listen when a book is read to them. As they get older, this becomes more difficult, given the distraction of screens and ...

Amazon is demanding that its corporate employees return to the office five days a week, a significant change from its current pandemic-era hybrid policy that requires them to be in the office just ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. This week, Sophie Vershbow asked English teachers, librarians, writers, and readers ...

Drawing on biography, history, mathematics, economics, and philosophy, this book challenges traditional decision-making approaches in the face of an unknowable future. My favorite part ...

Check out some of our favorite children's and middle grade books for first-day jitters, making new friends and more Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes for ...