Almost everything we know about the ancient world survives by chance—and countless books that could transform our understanding of history have vanished. This video explores the missing works ...

Medieval literature scholar Brown debuts with a captivating dual-timeline mystery inspired by the life, death, and prophecies of a woman who claimed to be a soothsayer during the reign of Henry VIII.

An author who lost a $2 million book deal over allegations he may have used AI to write it is denying the claims, saying they are racially motivated. Jerry Falade, a grad student at Southern Methodist ...

“The Hoosier State has long been dogged by nagging perceptions that it’s nothing more than an endless flat expanse of cornfields that fade into the horizon.” — from the introduction to “Lost Treasures ...

Ancient Egyptians built burials for the next world with the same seriousness they brought to this one: canopic jars for preserved organs, amulets for protection, ushabti figures for labor in the ...

The entertaining debut novel from memoirist Glynn (Out East) puts a queer spin on Arthurian legend. It follows the eponymous knight from his youth on the Isle of Women to his adulthood as a member of ...

A book of poetry that survived the catastrophic 1906 earthquake and fire has been returned to the Mechanics’ Institute. By Adeel Hassan Faded ink stamps of the Mechanics’ Institute Library dot the ...

My recent posts have explored various lost texts, mainly in the context of ancient Greek epics. But I have a long-standing interest in that theme of loss and rediscovery, and particularly in the ...

There is no doubting whose side Patrick Wyman is on. In “Lost Worlds: How Humans Tried, Failed, Succeeded, and Built Our World,” he speaks for the ordinary people of the past in their concrete reality ...

“The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton” is a vivid and erudite reimagining of Barton’s life encased within a present-day murder mystery that revolves around the discovery of a transcribed account of ...

Thursday, 5 March 2026 is World Book Day, a chance to celebrate reading and literature in all its kaleidoscopic forms. Keep your eyes peeled: you may well see groups of children dressed up as their ...