Reading rewards your personal growth in ways that television can’t replace.

After helping drive many U.S. bookstore chains out of business, Amazon has been opening its own retail stores, starting in Seattle in late 2015. Its first Amazon Books location in New York City opens Thursday morning in Manhattan’s Shops at Columbus Circle, which was previously home to a pretty large — and now closed — Borders Books and Music.

Game of Thrones Season 7 premieres 7.16.17 on HBO.

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Editors do their work behind the scenes, but they can have as much to do with a novel’s success (or failure) as the author does.

No, this isn’t clickbait. This is the news you’ve all been waiting for in the television world. The first trailer for Game of Thrones: Season Seven is here and it looks epic. ‘The Great War is here’, claims Jon Snow in the final scene of this brand new trailer suggesting that shit is going to go down – but of course, that’s just what we all want!

Ellen DeGeneres will appear in a brand new stand up special for Netflix, Variety has confirmed. “It has been 15 years since I did a stand-up special. 15 years,” DeGeneres said in a statement. “And I’m writing it now, I can’t wait. I’ll keep you posted when and where I’m gonna shoot my Netflix special. I’m excited to do it; I’m excited for you to see it.”

Actor Sir Roger Moore, best known for playing James Bond, has died aged 89, his family announces.

The FCC said it would not take any action over thousands of complaints about a crude joke made by Stephen Colbert about Trump and Putin.

According to Nielsen, MSNBC led the three cable networks between 8-11 p.m., averaging 611,000 viewers between the ages of 25 and 54, while dominating with 2,440,000 viewers overall.

"This is literature. It's not just puzzles, it's not just telling a nice story."

An elegy for time and the mortality of beauty, composed with passionate patience and a sensuous cadence.

Amazon’s new rating system for the book market is seeking to challenge the decades-long dominance of the New York Times bestseller status

Jill Lepore on the fight that reshaped children’s literature.

When Gabriel García Márquez’s most famous novel was published 50 years ago, it faced a difficult publishing climate and baffled reviews.

Social media have made it easy to let novelists know directly when their work has disappointed – but why do so many people want to do so?

In 18th-century Europe, the practice was considered a menace to life and property, but mostly to morals.

Maria Popova on a particular Beatles song that happens to be a significant animating force in her family story.

Captain Jack Sparrow sails the high seas again in the fifth outing of the Pirates of the Caribbean series. So did the filmmakers get the science right in the action packed adventure?

On the 50th anniversary of his death, we take a look back at Langston Hughes' 1930 debut novel, Not Without Laughter.