Twenty years before Jamestown was established, a small group of colonists settled Roanoke Island, off the coast of what is now North Carolina. When one of the colonists, John White, returned to the settlement three years later, the hundred people he had left were nowhere to be found, but their putative destination was carved into a post (not the tree that had been agreed upon): Croatoan. Croatoan was the name of a friendly tribe who lived on an island to the south.

In 2003, Elizabeth Gibson found a 1970 Rufino Tamayo painting between two garbage bags near an apartment building in Manhattan. She never learned who had thrown the painting away, but four years later she discovered that the painting was stolen, originally valued at $55,000, and now worth millions. “It’s a real New York story,” the FBI agent on the case told The New York Times.

Las Vegas doesn’t have a longstanding reputation as a literary city, but its status is growing.

Writing platforms are in no way easy to build, especially when they’re centered on a niche subject — for example, lingerie. But that’s exactly how former nonprofit worker Cora Harrington got her start. Under a pen name, she started her first blog about hosiery in 2008, but she quickly expanded into writing about the wider world of bras, corsets, and shapewear. In 2008, she launched The Lingerie Addict, which is now a six-figure-earning fashion website and the largest intimate apparel blog. Thro

When the padded envelope showed up in my mailbox in September, I tore it open immediately. At the time I’d just started research on my master’s thesis about Virginia Woolf and walking. Mrs. Dalloway intrigued me, as did To the Lighthouse and A Room of One’s Own. But Woolf’s short essays aren’t read as frequently, which is why The London Scene caught

Books are immersive, profound and often transcendent. They feature voices different from our own, reveal another’s consciousness and expose us to lives we’ve never lived. But books are only one...

Frustrated that he could never find a hat that fit properly, Joey Newell decided to take matters into this own hands — literally. He apprenticed at local hatmaker D Bar J and, before long, the professional photographer was making hats for himself.

We still tend to wonder if women can even wander Paris at night, if all cities aren’t just a little too dangerous for women to walk through alone. But women walk the streets even when the dialogue can’t catch up to them.

Sometimes it's the fragile things that make life beautiful, like the swath of sunlight that pours through the windows in the morning.

While the collection features many one-word, minimalist titles, those that are more whimsical reveal the Millennial heart at this collection. Yet it would be wrong to think this indicates shallow writing: the depth of Kuhn’s words shouldn’t come as a surprise simply because she is a younger poet.

Exotic locations may add intrigue and a sense of adventure to a novel, but rarely do they also affect the character relationships so fundamentally as in A Theory of Love by Margaret Bradham Thornton. When British journalist Helen Gibbs meets half-French, half-American financier Christopher Delavaux while on assignment on the west coast of Mexico, she doesn’t expect their first encounter to lead towards marriage in London just a few months later. Yet even though Helen and Christopher live the jet

When consulting the dictionary for the meaning of a word, it’s not often that we stop to evaluate the literary quality of the example sentences. In Dictionary Stories, Jez Burrows elegantly reconsiders the examples meant to demonstrate the typical usage of a word by assembling them to construct short stories ranging in genre, length, and style. “Open this book to a random page and you could find yourself reading a noir thriller, a fantasy epic, a sci-fi romance, a family melodrama,” Burrows writ

The spark for local author Chelsea Sedoti’s breakout YA (young adult) novel, The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett (Sourcebooks Fire, $17.99), began with an article in the Las Vegas Review-Journal...

Like people, books are all different types: trade paperbacks, hardcovers with pristine dustjackets, older books wrapped in cloth covers.

When We Are Called To Rise author Laura McBride went to the fading Riviera to watch a lounge act before the iconic hotel was imploded, she didn’t see a Strip...

From a literary classic to a romantic page-turner, these books—all set in the East End—are perfect for reading at the beach this season. It Happens in the Hamptons is the...

When Mandy Len Catron wrote an article for the New York Times that suggested you could fall in love with anyone by asking them just 36 questions, it’s no surprise...

Fast forward to 2017, and web writing has become a big deal. But is your blog a good place to write creative nonfiction?

Meg Fee first shared her writing when she started a blog, which quickly garnered a loyal following. Writing about her time in New York City led to her book Places I Stopped on The Way Home (released by Icon Books in May 2018), an exploration of the formative years she spent in the city as a 20-something. Her work navigates relationships and loneliness through a modern lens. Originally from Texas, Meg now lives in Durham, North Carolina, where she is pursuing a master’s degree in public policy at Duke University. In our discussion, we talked about New York City as a cultural construct, finding home, and turning 30.

Without a doubt, Carrie Fisher should be remembered as a feminist. Her role in the original Star Wars challenged the tired stereotypes of female film characters, but that was only...