We’re not polarized enough: Ezra Klein’s flawed diagnosis of the divisions in American politics
5
votes
-
-
Does “The Case Against Socialism” hold up? It does not. A brief look at Rand Paul’s new book.
9 votes -
Dolly Parton will read children's books at bedtime on social media
13 votes -
Book review: Hoover
5 votes -
Publisher drops Woody Allen's book after Ronan Farrow objects and employees walk out
7 votes -
People go to the library twice as often as they go to the movies
22 votes -
The New York Public Library has calculated its most checked-out books of all time
20 votes -
A history of buying books onto the bestseller list
8 votes -
Nipsey Hussle was a bookworm. Now Black men are finding inspiration in what he read.
10 votes -
Kalamazoo school district decides not to have LGBTQ books in reading program
4 votes -
Ten must-read crime books set in the American West
4 votes -
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library now mails more than one million books per month across the US, Australia, Britain, Canada and Ireland
12 votes -
How to live like Jane Austen
4 votes -
Whistleblower explains how Cambridge Analytica helped fuel US 'insurgency'
3 votes -
Snowden in the Labyrinth
12 votes -
Literature locked up: How prison book restriction policies constitute the nation’s largest book ban
6 votes -
Dolly Parton's ‘Books From Birth’ has now delivered one million free children's books to DC kids
8 votes -
Harry Potter books removed from St. Edward Catholic School due to 'curses and spells'
7 votes -
John W. Campbell Award is renamed after winner criticizes him
12 votes -
Ta-Nehisi Coates talks to Jesmyn Ward about writing fiction, reparations, and the legacy of slavery
4 votes -
Are today’s young readers turning on The Catcher in the Rye?
9 votes -
'We're Really Like Them': Somali Book Authors Write About Experience Settling In Green Bay
6 votes -
“I did not die. I did not go to heaven.”: How the controversy around a Christian bestseller engulfed the evangelical publishing industry—and tore a family apart.
10 votes -
Prisons are banning books that teach prisoners how to code
8 votes -
How the hell has Danielle Steel managed to write 179 books?
13 votes -
How Dr. Seuss’s Oh, The Places You’ll Go! became a ubiquitous (and cliché) graduation gift
4 votes -
Murder and the missing briefcase: The real story behind Harper Lee’s lost true crime book
5 votes -
Four books by Asian American authors republished as Penguin Classics
9 votes -
James Patterson donates $1.25 million to classroom libraries
9 votes -
Romance and erotica is the top revenue-generating literary category in the US, accounting for more than half of all mass-market paperbacks sold
8 votes -
Campaigners hail 'seismic shift' in diversity of US children's books
6 votes -
How the New York Public Library fills its shelves (and why some books don't make the cut)
5 votes -
Don Winslow: Think of it this way. Mexico has a US drug problem.
7 votes -
Robert and Virginia Heinlein's Colorado Springs House
6 votes -
$12 million gift opens new chapter for New York Public Library’s treasures
5 votes -
There's a theory that QAnon's posting is based on an old Italian novel
9 votes -
Laura Ingalls Wilder’s name stripped from children’s book award over ‘Little House’ depictions of Native Americans
I am shamelessly stealing this from the front page of /r/Books, where it has been locked due to shallow and uncivil discussion. I assume we can do better here. "Laura Ingalls Wilder’s name...
I am shamelessly stealing this from the front page of /r/Books, where it has been locked due to shallow and uncivil discussion. I assume we can do better here.
10 votes -
Straight Man by Richard Russo - An overlooked classic of American literature (2011)
3 votes -
US Federal prisons abruptly cancel policy that made it harder, costlier for inmates to get books
5 votes