Monmouth County apple orchards sent fruit to NYC in 1975 to promote bond sales during the city’s financial crisis.

With Ivy Pochoda's latest novel, Ecstasy, the author has pivoted from thrillers and is all-in on horror. Ecstasy is a modern reframing of Euripides’s brutal Greek tragedy The Bacchae. We discussed her...

In our afternoon reading; an interview with Amber Sparks, an essay by Sasha Frere-Jones, and more.

The festival will feature over 70 genre-defying acts in 3 days.

A forgotten spring tied to Henry Hudson hides in plain sight.

Meet the bookstores turning the Jersey Shore into a reader’s haven.

This iconic Jersey Shore peninsula hides centuries of history.

'Born to Run' was released on Aug. 25, 1975. The Bruce Springsteen Archives have a slate of events to honor the milestone album's 50th anniversary.

The Silent Book Club of Monmouth County went viral with a beach meetup, drawing 2.3M views.

A Middletown school board member faces serious charges after being caught with four weapons while on his way to confront his mistress's husband, escalating a troubled personal situation.

Paula Bomer’s work has often taken quiet, interior moments and rendered them explosive. With The Stalker, the subject matter for the dark satire and Bomer’s surgical precision as a writer combine for ...

John Colman's 1609 murder and possible burial sites in Bayshore remain a mystery.

Seventy years ago this month, the Hudson Valley cities of Kingston and Newburgh, NY proudly stood at the center of a transformative public health experiment. The Newburgh-Kingston Caries-Flourine Stud...

From poetry to comics to theatre, the Garden State's favorite cryptid is getting its moment to shine.

Paula Bomer's dizzying book is a fascinating look at an absurdly stupid young man in the early 1990s who manages to sustain himself despite having no evidence of a soul.