In "The Testaments", Margaret Atwood expands the world of "The Handmaid’s Tale" fiction.speculative Article 3898 words 8 votes
John W. Campbell Award is renamed after winner criticizes him science fiction Article 722 words 12 votes
Why everyone should read Harry Potter: Tales of the young wizard instill empathy, a study finds Article 1035 words 7 votes
Ta-Nehisi Coates talks to Jesmyn Ward about writing fiction, reparations, and the legacy of slavery fiction Article 5464 words 4 votes
Orwell knew: We willingly buy the screens that are used against us Article 1141 words, published Jul 26 2018 10 votes
What does Amazon want with the notoriously fickle world of publishing? To own your every reading decision Article 498 words 4 votes
Hell is Other Internet People: Gretchen McCulloch’s new book unpacks the language of the internet reviews Article 2180 words, published Jul 17 2019 7 votes
Jo Nesbø, master of Norway noir, returns with his creepiest yet reviews fiction.crime Article 987 words 5 votes
They Called Us Enemy: George Takei has talked about his family’s internment before. But never quite like this. reviews Article 905 words 9 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. Article 6205 words 10 votes
Sandra Boynton is tweaking some of her beloved children’s books. But why mess with perfection? Article 1176 words 7 votes
The Mind-Body Solution: Neal Stephenson’s Fall explores higher consciousness, the internet’s future, and virtual worldbuilding in one mind-blowing adventure. science fiction reviews Article 1727 words 5 votes
How Dr. Seuss’s Oh, The Places You’ll Go! became a ubiquitous (and cliché) graduation gift Article 1997 words 4 votes
Kosoko Jackson’s book scandal suggests YA Twitter is getting uglier fiction.young adult Article 1140 words, published Mar 4 2019 12 votes
“The Arisen” - A short story by Louisa Hall about fact, fiction, and libraries short stories Article 7084 words 3 votes
James Kelman on the Booker, class and literary elitism Article 1926 words, published Mar 13 2019 4 votes
Oops! Famously scathing reviews of classic books from The Times’s archive literature reviews Article 70 words 8 votes
How the New York Public Library fills its shelves (and why some books don't make the cut) libraries Article 1135 words, published Mar 2 2019 5 votes
Must writers be moral? Their contracts may require it Article 1935 words, published Jan 4 2019 8 votes
A new book describes Hunter S. Thompson’s prescience. “Trump is present on every page, even though he’s never mentioned once,” the author says. Article 573 words 8 votes
Tiny books fit in one hand. Will they change the way we read? Article 1423 words, published Oct 29 2018 8 votes
What Isaac Asimov taught us about predicting the future science fiction reviews Article 1251 words, published Oct 31 2018 14 votes
The young queer writer who became Greenland’s unlikely literary star literature Article 1735 words 6 votes
The poison squad: One chemist’s single-minded crusade for food safety at the turn of the twentieth century nonfiction reviews Article 1411 words 6 votes
A personal library too big to get through in a lifetime “isn’t a sign of failure or ignorance,” but rather “a badge of honor.” libraries Article 1043 words, published Oct 8 2018 11 votes
$12 million gift opens new chapter for New York Public Library’s treasures libraries Article 54 words, published Sep 12 2018 5 votes
The committee that awards the Nobel Prize in Literature is having a public meltdown over allegations of sexual harassment and cronyism literature Article 343 words 7 votes
Reader, Come Home - Digital culture doesn’t have to make you a shallow reader. But you have to do something about it reviews Article 1999 words, published Aug 16 2018 9 votes
The rise of the sci-fi novella: All the imagination, none of the burden science fiction Article 1304 words 12 votes
A critic sells books down by the seashore - A bookstore in the village of Wigtown, Scotland, allows people to run the shop while renting an apartment upstairs Article 1565 words 7 votes
An excerpt from "The Overstory: A Novel" by Richard Powers fiction Article 4267 words, published Apr 5 2018 2 votes
US Federal prisons abruptly cancel policy that made it harder, costlier for inmates to get books libraries.prison Article 1288 words 5 votes