Larry Carr, director of bookstore and services, comments about the cool reception e-books are getting this semester.

The 26th annual Providence Journal/Brown University Public Affairs Conference, to be held March 6 and 7, will be "One Nation Indivisible? The Persistence of Class in American Culture."

Yesterday, Hope High School's three principals announced partnerships with Rhode Island College, Rhode Island School of Design, Johnson & Wales University, Roger Williams University and Brown University.

It’s Valentine’s Day, husbands. Do you have your To Do list? Sure, you’ve gotten the flowers, but unless you’ve read Scott Haltzman’s new book, you don’t know the rest of your duties today, writes John Tierney. You will find these duties in a handy chart in Haltzman’s book, “The Secrets of Happily Married Men,” which is a work of marketing genius. Haltzman, a psychiatrist at Brown University, knows that most guys will not buy a self-help book unless it tells them how to make more money or actualize their inner golfer.