A new book unpacks how “summer reading” became a category unto itself.

A book borrowed from an Irish library has been returned more than 80 years after it was due to be taken back. The White Owl by Annie MP Smithson was borrowed on 23 July 1937 from Donegal County Library in the Irish-speaking Gaeltacht area of Gweedore. It was returned to Gweedore Public Library on 17 May.

George Orwell meant his novel to be a warning, not a prediction—and that warning is relevant in new and unsettling ways.

French books still dominate the US translation market, but Mexican and Korean books are surging.

Many books aren’t fact-checked, and we’re increasingly realizing they’re full of errors.

No one’s making them try to read 100 books a year.

That price tag includes all of the book megachain's debt. Elliott's acquisition of the largest retail bookseller in the U.S. comes less than a year after it bought Waterstones, the largest in the U.K.

George Orwell’s 1984 was published exactly 70 years ago today but its horrifying vision of a world in which every citizen is monitored at all times by an all-knowing, all-seeing authoritarian “Big Brother” government seems oddly closer and more threatening than ever. Driven by a combination of surveillance and data processing technologies — artificial Intelligence, deep learning, facial recognition software, Internet of Things, the world is quickly adopted the very technologies that make such a system possible.

On the Boats Bringing Books to Thousands Who Need Them

University libraries around the world are seeing precipitous declines in the use of the books on their shelves.

Some authors can’t even remember their own titles.

A Pulitzer Prize winner at The Wall Street Journal, he wrote the best sellers “Blue Latitudes” and “Confederates in the Attic” and seven other books.

Bestiary manuscripts of the Middle Ages reflect the beliefs and superstitions of the culture that created them.

As we grind up against the absolute limits of humanity’s use and misuse of our environment, it’s tempting to look to Silent Spring and ask why it had such a profound impact. By Meehan Crist.

In Ted Chiang’s new collection of stories, technology can be a force for human—and robotic—good. By Joyce Carol Oates.

Challenges to the legitimacy of the profession have forced it to examine itself, including the fundamental question of what constitutes a mental disorder.

George Orwell meant his novel to be a warning, not a prediction—and that warning is relevant in new and unsettling ways.

Wait! Stop! Before you order that copy of David Benioff's City of Thieves from Amazon (a book I highly recommend), check to see if it's available at your local library. Because free! Oh, I know what you're saying: You don't have time to visit your library's website or load up one of the e-book-borrowing apps (as described in how to get free e-books from your public library) and do all that manual searching.

by Jackie French and Bruce Whatley

Amazon has removed more than a dozen books that unscientifically claim a homemade bleach, chlorine dioxide, can cure conditions ranging from malaria to childhood autism. The books include directions for making and ingesting the concoction, which doctors and federal regulators have warned is dangerous.

Nearly 20 years after To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee was living out of the public eye, drinking and suffering from writer’s block. Then she came across the sensational case of a murderous preacher. By Casey Cep.

In May, 2015, Sagar Shejwal, a young, male nursing student in the west Indian state of Maharashtra, was murdered by a group of men who’d overheard his ringtone... By Liesl Schwabe.

Jokha Alharthi, the first female Omani novelist to be translated into English, has won the Man Booker International prize for her novel Celestial Bodies

“Range,” by David Epstein, argues that the unpredictable demands of contemporary life increasingly give the advantage to generalists, not specialists.

When I was eight years old I only remember watching cartoons and binging on too much sugar. Now that I’m no longer eight years old and haven’t been for decades now I can only be baffled by how muc

I did read a few books published in the last thirty years. Most of them bored me to tears. A few, however, were so odd or stupid or, here and there, brilliant that I had to take notice. I was not able to dismiss them, as I would probably have preferred to do.

A literature professor at Manchester Metropolitan University recently unearthed a legendary manuscript: a 200-page work titled The Clockwork Condition by A Clockwork Orange’s Anthony Burgess. Don’t get too excited, Droog lovers. Colin Dwyer at NPR reports that Condition is not a sequel to the cult novel, but rather a meditation on the “condition of modern man” that was to be structured similarly to Dante’s Inferno. The manuscript was also something of a cash grab. After the release and success of Stanley Kubrick’s film version of book in 1971, a publisher reached out to Burgess...

About a decade ago, Heather Reisman, the chief executive of Canada’s largest bookstore chain, was having tea with the novelist Margaret Atwood when Ms. Atwood inadvertently gave her an idea for a new product. Ms. Atwood announced that she planned to go home, put on a pair of cozy socks and curl up with a book. Ms. Reisman thought about how appealing that sounded. Not long after, her company, Indigo, developed its own brand of plush “reading socks.” They quickly became one of Indigo’s signature gift items.

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If you're looking for a case study in toxic internet culture, look no further than the online world of young adult fiction. That might seem surprising: After all, we're talking about boy wizards and sexy vampires and mawkish coming-of-age tales here, right? Here's the short version: In recent years, young adult, or Y.A., fiction has come into its own as a genre, reliably producing a small number of megahits...

Our new survey to mark World Book Night, our annual celebration of books and reading, has revealed that smartphone habits are preventing us from reading books. 66% saying that they would read more if they spent less time scrolling. 55% of all adults and 72% of young people admit they lack sufficient self-control because they can't help but continue to check their smartphone when they could be reading, showing we exist in a Notification Nation.

It began in front of a log fire after a convivial dinner with friends and neighbours, Ted and Carol Hughes. I was grumbling about the lack of attention and credit generally given in the adult world to children’s books. Hughes, poet laureate at the time, said something like: “A fine children’s book is as important and worthwhile as any kind of literature, and maybe more so. Read and love a great story or poem when you’re young and the chances are that you’ll become a reader for life, and maybe a writer or an artist. Something should be done.”

Herman Wouk, the versatile, Pulitzer Prize winning author of such million-selling novels as “The Caine Mutiny” and “The Winds of War” whose steady Jewish faith inspired his stories of religious values and secular success, died on Friday at 103.

To the public, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has written just one book, a 2007 policy piece about the future of green energy. But to his family, the 2020 Democratic candidate and grandpa is much more prolific. For the last 10 years, Inslee has written and illustrated one children's book a year for his three grandkids. A number of the books focus on nature, the climate and the effects the warming Earth has on the environment.

In Fall; or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel, the sci-fi author tracks our inevitable descent into AR-enabled filter bubbles—only to leave it all behind.