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The Chicago City Council is seeking the public transit chief's ouster as the system wrestles with financial woes, sluggish service and crime complaints since the pandemic. Until recently, Dorval R. [...]

The University of North Dakota, the latest U.S. college to acknowledge keeping Indigenous bones and artifacts, pledged to work with tribal leaders on returning them. GRAND FORKS, N.D. -- The [...]

Byline: Julie Bosman Men have died of the coronavirus in larger numbers than women, leaving untold thousands of spouses suddenly alone. Some have turned to bereavement groups on Facebook. CHICAGO [...]

DAVENPORT, Iowa -- In Davenport, where the overflow from the Mississippi River is lapping at a new taproom in the heart of downtown, weary business owners cannot get another flood [...]

During his annual budget address on Wednesday, Gov. Rick Snyder of Michigan laid out a series of sweeping proposals to help Flint cope with its contaminated water supply. He proposed [...]

LANSING, Mich. -- In the spring of 2013, Detroit was groaning under the weight of its troubles. It had accumulated billions in debt, was riddled with crime and had seen [...]

MADISON, Wis. -- Last Wednesday, in the grand Beaux-Arts Capitol here, throngs of lawmakers and tourists milled around upstairs. Matt Adamczyk, the newly elected state treasurer, however, was in his [...]

FERGUSON, Mo. -- Gov. Jay Nixon of Missouri on Saturday imposed a midnight to 5 a.m. curfew in this small city, declaring a state of emergency as violence flared anew [...]

Barnes & Noble said on Wednesday that it would release a new color tablet later this year, even as losses in its sputtering Nook division continued to weigh down the [...]

Simon & Schuster will publish a new book by Jimmy Carter on the treatment of women, the publisher said on Tuesday. The book, ''A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence [...]

Michael Lewis, whose colorful reporting on money and excess on Wall Street has made him one of the country's most popular business journalists, has written a new book on the […]

The National Poetry Series, a 35-year-old organization that facilitates the publication of five books of poetry each year, is in danger of closing. Daniel Halpern, the director of the nonprofit [...]

The London law firm responsible for revealing that J.CeK. Rowling is the author of the detective novel ''The Cuckoo's Calling'' has agreed to make a ''substantial'' donation to charity as [...]

The journals of the Canadian writer Mavis Gallant will be published by Knopf, the publisher said. ''These journals are an important part of literary history, and we are proud to [...]

An Amazon.com program that allows Kindle owners to read e-books free has just made a high-profile addition: the ''Harry Potter'' series. Beginning June 19, consumers who own Kindle devices and [...]

THE high-achieving mother publicly laid out her methods, strict and punishing. She wrote of how her young daughter, told that she needed to change, resisted, rebelled, sometimes threw a tantrum. [...]

''Fifty Shades of Grey,'' the erotic novel that went from X-rated underground sensation to mainstream literary phenomenon, is poised to become a Hollywood movie. Universal Pictures has acquired the film [...]

Another major publisher has pushed back against making its e-books available to library users. Penguin Book Group said it would ''delay the availability'' of new e-books to libraries because of [...]

Could people talk about books with the same timely intensity that they do the latest episode of ''Mad Men'' or ''Top Chef''? The novelist Mark Z. Danielewski plans to test [...]

Patrick O'Brian's popular seafaring novels featuring Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin will be released as e-books for the first time, their publisher said on Sunday. The 20-book series, set during [...]

Times Books will publish the ''definitive account'' of the hacking scandal swirling around Rupert Murdoch and News International, the publisher said on Tuesday, written by Sarah Lyall and Don Van [...]

Linda Ronstadt is joining the music memoir club with her own book, ''Heart Like a Wheel,'' said her publisher, Simon & Schuster. The memoir, titled after her hit 1974 album, [...]

When Sammy Hagar appeared at Left Bank Books in St. Louis in March to autograph copies of his memoir, it was not a typical book signing. Mr. Hagar, the former [...]

A book deal that Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, signed only six months ago has fallen through, according to a report in The Guardian on Wednesday, but Canongate, his [...]

Harry Potter is coming as an e-book. J. K. Rowling, the author behind that blockbuster fantasy series, said at a news conference in London on Thursday that a new interactive [...]

Ron Suskind, the author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, will offer a new account of the financial crisis and its aftermath in ''Confidence Men,'' a book to be released by HarperCollins [...]

Those who inhabit the rarefied world of Michael R. Bloomberg, with all its perquisites and payouts, have long adhered to a strict code of silence about his personal life: jaunts [...]

Authors are shrugging off publishers to self-publish their work. Publishers are advancing into retail. Barnes & Noble is getting deeper into the gadget business, and Amazon is stepping into publishing. [...]

Andrew Morton, who has written biographies of Diana, Princess of Wales, Monica Lewinsky and Tom Cruise, has turned to a familiar subject for his next book: the newly wedded royal [...]

The guru and best-selling author Deepak Chopra will run his own small imprint at Random House, called Deepak Chopra Books, the company said on Monday. Dr. Chopra's imprint will be [...]

''TILL rhymes stop rhyming, and pots stop boiling,'' a voice-over says, ''by hook or by crook, by book or by nook.'' Make that Nook Color, the e-reading tablet that Barnes [...]

While the publishing industry waited to see whether it faced the embarrassment of yet another partly fabricated memoir, Greg Mortenson, the co-author of the best-selling ''Three Cups of Tea,'' a [...]

Molly Bloom's wandering soliloquy in James Joyce's ''Ulysses'' was the inspiration for ''The Sensual World,'' the title song from Kate Bush's 1989 album, but at the time the Joyce estate [...]

HarperCollins will publish a young-adult book that was originally submitted on Inkpop, its Web site for teenage writing. The book, a debut novel by Leigh Fallon, a South African living [...]

In a meeting with publishers on Thursday, Borders laid out a more detailed proposal for moving the troubled company forward, including asking publishers to provide money for a large portion [...]

A new edition of ''Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' is missing something. Throughout the book -- 219 times in all -- the word ''nigger'' is replaced by ''slave,'' a substitution that [...]

The University of Virginia has released its audit investigating workplace conditions at the Virginia Quarterly Review, the prizewinning literary journal it oversees, but nearly three months after the suicide of [...]

This year, it is out with the superstore and in with the pop-up. Borders, making a push to sell e-readers and books during the holiday season, plans to open 25 [...]

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- Ted Genoways was just 31 when he took over as editor of The Virginia Quarterly Review in 2003, determined to propel the storied but old-fashioned literary magazine [...]

HarperCollins approved the early release of the e-book version of ''Muhammad,'' Deepak Chopra's fictionalized biography about the Prophet Muhammad's life that is to be published in printed form on Sept. [...]

Six authors, including Tom McCarthy for his novel ''C'' and Emma Donoghue for ''Room,'' were named on Tuesday to the shortlist for the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, the [...]

The Virginia Quarterly Review, an award-winning literary journal, has canceled its winter issue and closed its offices after the suicide last month of its managing editor and a subsequent investigation [...]

Long before it was published, it reached the coveted top spot on Amazon.com. Its publisher ordered an enormous number of copies printed. Eager readers have planned to celebrate its arrival [...]

It makes perfect sense that Pete Hamill, 75 years old, chronicler of vintage New York City and newspaper tabloids and boozy Greenwich Village literary haunts, prefers print books to electronic. [...]

It could be that the Swedish novelist Stieg Larsson was just weeks and a little more than 100 pages away from finishing the fourth manuscript in his best-selling Millennium series. [...]

Sonia Sotomayor, right, the Supreme Court justice, will write a memoir to be published by Alfred A. Knopf, the publisher announced Monday. The book does not yet have a publication [...]

An embarrassing influence-peddling scandal is not keeping Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, away from an annual bookseller's convention in New York this week. A British newspaper reported on Sunday [...]

As long as there have been homeless people sleeping in Times Square, there have been social workers and city officials trying to persuade them to leave. In the past, the [...]

More than a half-dozen gentrified neighborhoods in Brooklyn would lose subsidized day care centers for low-income families under proposed city budget cuts, Bloomberg administration officials said Wednesday. A list of [...]

The Bloomberg administration plans to merge the city's Department of Juvenile Justice into its child welfare agency, signaling a more therapeutic approach toward delinquency that will send fewer of the [...]