Nine years after her daughter’s death in the Oakland fire, Colleen Dolan shares how incidental memories help her smile.

The parlour is decked out with lush furniture, including velvet chairs and rich leather sofas, while an otherworldly-looking creature guards the aquarium tank that appears as though it was just ...

Since 1886, the Bissman Building has been a grocery warehouse, a filming location for the Shawshank Redemption and even a ghost-hunting hub.

Here is the standout fiction and nonfiction of the year, selected by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

The stepmother of Anna Kepner, the high school senior found dead on a Carnival cruise ship earlier this month, has invoked the Fifth Amendment in a custody battle as one ...

The ending of Train Dreams begins years after the fire, when Robert has rebuilt a small cabin on the ashes of his old home and lives alone in the woods. He has never found the bodies of Gladys or ...