Resort book clubs, tour companies, hotel libraries and a growing number of literary festivals are offering readers new ways to indulge their interests.

“One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things,” mused author Henry Miller in his 1957 memoir Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch. It’s true: Travel has the ...

As presented in Andrea Wulf’s new biography, “The Traveler,” George Forster was an impressively curious, open-minded 17-year-old naturalist and polymath. By Jennifer Szalai When you purchase an ...