By Brian Raftery A taboo-busting Brooklyn memoir, a tender Japanese novel about the beauty of connection, a book by a death doula: Editors and writers from around the newsroom describe their ...

The winner of this year’s National Book Award in fiction has published several collections of poems. Our critic takes a look. In “Ira Gershwin: A Life in Words,” Michael Owen offers a ...

New editions of books by John Dickson Carr, Tom Mead and Edna Sherry remind me why I loved them the first time. The first two books of “On the Calculation of Volume,” by Solvej Balle ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Dec. 20, 1946, the classic holiday film “It’s a Wonderful Life” premiered at the Globe Theater in New York City. The ...

The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has released the exterior renderings of six new temples, a week after releasing five such renderings for another five houses of ...

Sport fans: we have your Christmas sorted. Roger Alton has picked out the best sport books of 2024 ranging from the scientific way to score a penalty to the heartfelt memoir of Sir Chris Hoy.

I’m sure many of you did the same. A good book is escapist. But at its strongest, reading is an utterly transformative act – the lessons we learn, the characters we meet and the perspectives ...

Irresistible picks for readers of all kinds of romance, from enemies-to-lovers to marriage of convenience to just one bed by Casey McQuiston by Casey McQuiston by Frances Burney by Jane Austen by ...

Even if you don't have a huge chunk of cash to invest in your hi-fi system, you don't have to settle for poor-quality sound. There's serious value available from a range of affordable speakers, with ...

The work’s librettist, Charles Jennens, was a wealthy man and a keen collector of art, books and musical manuscripts. A lifelong bachelor with few friends, Jennens (pronounced Jennings ...

The second and fourth Books of the Maccabees describe how, during Antiochus’ repressions, an old man named Eleazar, and a Judean mother and her seven sons, chose death by elaborate torture over ...