A group of concerned booksellers recently sent an open letter to the American Booksellers Association and the American ...

Oh, Scholastic Book Fair. If you made your way through a public school in North America anytime during the past half-century, ...

Paulina Borsook saw there was something rotten afoot in Silicon Valley in the 1990s, and in her book Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High Tech, she set ...

Cross the sea,” a young Grazia Deledda wrote in a poem to Americans in 1893, “and tell everyone that the island of Sardinia ...

If I could have been a dancer, a real dancer, beyond those years at St. Mark’s, I probably would have done it. But my gifts ...

We can cultivate qualities that help us to stick around in struggle. This is something that came up when I spoke in 2023 with Philadelphia activist Suzy Subways about her decades of movement ...

The Best Reviewed Books of the Week "The plot here like the plots in the previous three Mandel novels I've read is…" ...

The Best Reviewed Books of the Week "The plot here like the plots in the previous three Mandel novels I've read is…" ...

When Dolly Parton died recently, radio stations and music streamers filled our ears with her irresistible anthem, “9 to 5.” The song topped the music charts and was nominated for an ...

We warn our opponents not to drive us to the uttermost,” he bellowed. “Hunger is preferable to disgrace, and deprivation is to be preferred to dishonor.” And, as it turned out, the harsh terms of ...

It was the autumn of 1865—a quiet, bitter autumn after four hollowing years of war—when James Gilmore received a manuscript from a ghost. Well, not a ghost exactly. There’d been rumors, of course, ...

Friday, September 6 Honestly, the first thing I heard this morning as someone walked past the bookshop door I cannot even type because it includes the worst of all the swears, but I will tell you ...