I got into librarianship kind of like how a barfly gets into tending bar: you sit in the place for hours on end, day after ...

A Table for Fortune is about September 11th. As it grew, tracing the roots of that crime in one direction and its poisoned ...

Phrased & Confused, in which Eli Burnstein digs into the meaning of some of the famous literary aphorisms of all time, is ...

ANTIBLACKNESS (noun) 1. that which engulfs Blackness with inescapable violence 2. a set of relations that mark and position ...

A group of concerned booksellers recently sent an open letter to the American Booksellers Association and the American ...

Oh, Scholastic Book Fair. If you made your way through a public school in North America anytime during the past half-century, ...

A group of right-to-read advocates and authors are hosting a live telethon tomorrow to draw attention to freedom to read ...

If I could have been a dancer, a real dancer, beyond those years at St. Mark’s, I probably would have done it. But my gifts ...

On September 6, Singapore started paying its citizens to read.  As The Guardian reported, this scheme represents the ...

Today, the Booker Prize Foundation announced the six books on the 2026 Booker Prize shortlist, whittled down from the “Booker’s Dozen” announced in July. The Booker is the UK’s ...

Dr. Sasha Dovzhyk is a Ukrainian writer, journalist and founder of Index: Institute for Documentation and Exchange. Her ...

Paulina Borsook saw there was something rotten afoot in Silicon Valley in the 1990s, and in her book Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High Tech, she set ...