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The NYPL shares its most-borrowed titles, including a royal memoir and a fictional romance between video game developers.

In 1975, Bum Farto had it all. A dead body and a drug deal gone wrong changed everything.

How a love of drinking and Britain’s 18th-century Toby jugs might have inspired the slang word for ‘face.’

Though it’s now considered one of Pablo Picasso’s masterpieces, ‘Guernica’ didn’t have many fans when it debuted—one critic even called the artwork “one of the poorest things produced in the world.”

Heritage Auctions is giving you the chance to own all that iconic 'Succession' fashion.

Can you guess which author spent the most time on ‘The New York Times’ bestseller list? (Hint: It isn't J.K. Rowling or Stephen King.)

With dolphins masquerading as whales, lizards as toads, and marsupials as bears, it can be tough to keep track of which animals are which.

The definition of a continent isn't as concrete as you might expect, but a few qualities help earn Australia that distinction.

These unusual animals are in the same taxonomic group as cats, but there isn’t much family resemblance.

Bioastronautics researcher Kellie Gerardi envisions a future when space is open to all.

Why does the fire department show up for emergency calls if nothing is on fire?

The two dialects have transformed to the point that North Korean defectors often struggle with unfamiliar language when arriving in South Korea—so much that the South Korean government publishes a list of commonly confused words to aid new defectors.