“Dark Archives,” by Megan Rosenbloom, a librarian at U.C.L.A., traces the history of the controversial practice and considers what we should do with such books today.

Remember when you used to sneak a flashlight under the covers so you could read a book after bedtime? A bookshop in Taiwan promises you a similar experience. Wuguan Books is located in Kaohsiung's Pier-2 Art Center, a warehouse-turned-creative hub in Taiwan's second-largest city. And it is just as much an art exhibit as it is a bookshop.

I can hardly remember what was happening in January of this year, much less what I was doing when I was an 18-year-old. We do have a good sense of what Jane Austen was up to, though.

Incredible picture book biographies of Black people creating, leading, and living inspiring, powerful lives.

Letters: Libraries are a profound resource that can use bibliotherapy to support people with fragile mental health, writes John Duffy

For nearly 40 years, the American Library Association (ALA) has used the last week in September to celebrate Banned Books Week. The annual event was launched in the 1980s during a time of increased challenges and organized protests against books. The ALA and other groups have been promoting the event each year to celebrate the freedom to read. This year, Banned Book Week runs from Monday, Sept. 27 through Oct. 3.

Checkouts of digital books from a popular service are up 52 percent since March. Publishers say their easy availability hurts sales.

It’s easy for me to say that being a reader has formed the foundation for my life. My mother, in lieu of having a multitude of books on hand when we were small, would recite the same nursery rhymes to us over and over again only to find that we actually preferred her versions to those written down.

Authors are suffering under the pandemic economy, too. They say the Emergency Library will make things worse.

All his life, 56-year-old Pratap Singh Bora has been sticking his thumb in ink to sign documents. He didn't go to school when he was a kid. Little did he know that he would learn to write his first words at a coronavirus lockdown center during a global pandemic.

Even before the digital age, book-lovers were always prone to distraction

Newly digitised lending cards from Shakespeare and Company uncover the choices of luminaries including Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein

The nonprofit has said its National Emergency Library was a public service to people unable to access libraries during the pandemic, but publishers and authors accused it of theft.

Books like "White Fragility" and "How to Be An Anti-Racist" have become best sellers, overwhelming independent Black-owned bookstores across the US.

A book was returned to Kent District Library after it had been microwaved and burned due to the metal sensor located inside.

Everything I knew About Reading Was Wrong. I realized this about a year ago.

Several years ago, I was given as a gift a remote session with a bibliotherapist at the London headquarters of the School of Life, which offers innovative courses to help people deal with the daily emotional challenges of existence. I have to admit that at first I didn’t really like the idea of being given a reading “prescription.”

The fantasy author has an army of devoted fans and a record-making Kickstarter - but before the bestsellers, he spent a decade being told to be ‘more like George RR Martin’

There are books that entertain you, speak to the brain, change your thinking, your mind. These 10 books absolutely fit those criteria. Read them, but more importantly, do what they tell you. It is your acting not just your reading that will get you the best results.

Reading a book on a Kindle sends Amazon a lot of data about reading habits. How fast pages are turned, font sizes and views, and device details.