December 20th, 1951, was a big day for the United States and southeast Idaho. On that day 75 years ago, EBR-1, the ...

Ian McEwan’s novel explores two key ideas: climate change and the incapability of human beings to truly know anyone, ...

The late contender for buzziest book of 2025 has to be David Szalay’s Booker Prize-winning Flesh (Jonathan Cape, 368pp, $34.99). Following a man from the suburbs of Hungary to the world of the ...

The 230-odd pieces Cog published this year were personal and political. We worked with new writers and bestselling authors, ...

Most people have read or at least heard of a man named Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882). He was a literary giant in his lifetime and is still known today in many circles as “The Children’s Poet” ...

If you’re looking to get into audiobooks, it can be difficult to know where to begin. The days of chunky physical CD or ...

Writing this column reminds me that there are so many things that make Hawaii a special place. Last week, I shared some of ...

Poetically, Tolkien’s long struggle to realize his vision — the self-doubt that led to long pauses in composition, his frustrations with publishers and his general inability to be satisfied enough ...

From warm romances to nail-biting suspense, and from literary legends to emerging storytellers, here is a list of books we ...

On Christmas Day 1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote the poem we now know as the song "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day." Earlier in the year, Longfellow had unsuccessfully pressured his son, ...

Marek Kazmierski presents brand new translations of three legendary Warsaw anthems, exploring how the process of reading ...

A year into US President Donald Trump’s second term, America’s immigration policy has undergone one of its most sweeping ...