The great Victorian chronicler of inequality and poverty was also a tremendous – and prolific – storyteller. Here are some of the best ways in to his colossal legacy

Holiday gift guide with the best business books to gift leaders and entrepreneurs curated by Virtual Gurus staff.

He began like many before him and many after. Though he was born before a great many things, such as printed books, Calculus, the fall of Rome, and many others, no one immediately knew he was different. He had a mother and father and brothers and sisters. He was born somewhere in France, and worked as a stone mason in a small village that has long since been forgotten.

Even as TV and streaming services are snapping up video game IP, their popularity in the literary world is waning.

Writers Ivo Victoria, Sarah Meuleman and Geert Buelens all found it liberating to move to the Netherlands. But it wasn’t long before they encountered the downsides of their destination country.

Elden Ring, the open-world, spiritual successor to the Dark Souls series, saw the involvement of Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin, who contributed to the game’s backstory. Like Dark Souls, the story of Elden Ring isn’t exactly told to the player - it is implied, hinted at through evocative item descriptions, the vague ramblings of NPC characters, and experienced through the world itself.

The first in The Nameless Republic trilogy. A complex world with a very un-European civilization. Very readable.

Book banning in libraries and schools is gaining momentum across the country.

When Ye – the artist formerly known as Kanye West – stated during a recent podcast that he doesn’t read books, some people questioned whether he was sending the wrong message to children. Those questions took on more importance in light of the fact that Ye recently launched Donda Academy, a private educational venture named after his late mother, Donda West, who was herself an English professor.

Despite assertions that he is ‘enjoying not doing anything’, author pens The Secret History of Christmas to reveal Santa’s true identity

Dame Hilary Mantel, author of the best-selling Wolf Hall trilogy, has died aged 70, her publisher has confirmed. She won the Booker Prize twice, for 2009's Wolf Hall, the first in the Thomas Cromwell series, and its 2012 sequel Bring Up the Bodies. In a statement, her publisher said: "We are heartbroken at the death of our beloved author, Dame Hilary Mantel.

In a political environment where book-banning efforts are being used to drive voter sentiment, librarians find themselves on the front lines.

It may have been eclipsed as reference material, but it’s still a valuable indication of the general knowledge of past generations

Garbage collectors in the Turkish capital have opened a public library made up entirely of books once destined for the landfills.

Every recommendation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s body of work sounds like it’s overselling it. For a lot of people, the walking and talking and eating is pretty boring, and the scenes where incognito warrior women doff their helms and stab vile sorcerer kings in their stupid faces are too few and far between. The Peter Jackson movies, which have come to be regarded as the definitive adaptation of the meaty central tale of Tolkien’s work...

Summer Boismier resigned from Norman High School after a student's parent complained. Now, Oklahoma's Secretary of Education wants to revoke her teaching certificate.

Many followers of "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling are pointing out that her newest book appears to bear some similarities to her own life, as the plot revolves around an artist who is doxxed online. "The Ink Black Heart," written under Rowling’s pseudonym, Robert Galbraith, follows Edie Ledwell, the creator of a popular YouTube cartoon who is "persecuted by a mysterious online figure," according to the book's Amazon description. The novel, which was released Tuesday, is the sixth book in her thriller series “Cormoran Strike.”

We’ve all seen the decline of book sales over the past decade, due to online, downloadable versions and audiobooks. However, the good old fashioned paper book shouldn’t be discounted just yet, as the twenty best-selling books we’ve included on this list are still in high demand and selling strong.

How much do authors make per book? As with everything else in publishing, the answer is: It depends. A lot of readers have the idea that every author is wealthy, but that is far from the truth. Yes, Stephen King probably has more money than he’ll ever need, but he is an outlier. The majority of authors don’t even make a living wage with their books.

Scientists borrowed the ecological "unseen species" model to estimate how many works of medieval European literature have gone extinct.