These are the fiction and nonfiction books PEOPLE's resident bookworms are toting in their beach bags this season.

There are few things that still manage to unravel the seams of Western civility quite like a brown man casually eating with ...

Born into a family of farmers, the designer invited aprons, petticoats, fichu collars, plus fours and kerchiefs into his ...

Although written in 1923 about a story from the 15th century, the themes of Saint Joan continue to be pertinent in the 21st century. George Bernard Shaw's classic, written after the canonisation of ...

The drug lord, detained in a US prison since February on charges of killing a DEA agent, is waiting to find out whether he ...

On the eve of his 90th birthday, the Dalai Lama announced that the Gaden Phodrang Trust will recognise his next reincarnation ...

Yet if we think about it, donkeys have arguably been more useful and productive for humanity than horses. Still, their humble ...

Many of them were businessmen who made their money by turfing English peasants off the land they’d farmed for generations. And many of them were slave-owners.

During the Middle Ages the tradition continued only among the nobility, as most of the peasant classes didn’t have the money ...

Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackery has ordered his party workers to burn the government resolution (GR) on teaching Hindi ...

The town has many remarkable attractions, including Danjo Garan, a huddle of temples with a stunning, 48-metre-high ...

A history and description of bark and skin boat traditions of the native peoples of Scandinavia and northern Russia that ...