Every January 1 in the Books department, we like to make an extra toast for a concurrent holiday: Public Domain Day.

Americans are reading fewer books than ever before, with smartphones and digital content reshaping our relationship with traditional reading. New research reveals how this shift impacts cognitive ...

Being creative or intellectual is turning into peer pressure. We are expected to know everything beginning from books to the ...

Sherlock Holmes meets Indiana Jones in “The Bones of the Apostle,” the newest book from scholar and lawyer John Amos. “Bones” ...

Bernice Leahy, who writes under the pen name of KD Sherrinford, has just released Book 4 of the award-winning Sherlock Holmes ...

Benedict Cumberbatch doesn't come from a royal background, but his family tree is linked to kings like Richard III!

It might seem difficult to believe at first, but few men lived as extraordinary a life as Christoper Lee, the prolific actor ...

In a famous Arthur Conan Doyle story, “The Adventure of Silver Blaze,” Sherlock Holmes draws the attention of Scotland Yard’s ...

Adaptations of Holmes stories are exploding now that the detective is in the public domain. Critics believe it should have ...

In this new season of Adventures in Compliance, host Tom Fox takes a deep dive into the Sherlock Holmes collection The Case-Book of Sherlock ...

Brian Freemantle, who has died aged 88, was a globetrotting journalist turned prolific thriller writer, best-known as the ...

After the Capitol riots of January 6, 2021, it seemed that everyone learned a word they had never used before—“insurrection.” ...