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Two St. Paul Islanders are updating a more than 100-year-old story from Rudyard Kipling, and telling it from an Alaska-native ...

Oliver James was 32 when he admitted to TikTok followers he couldn't read. In a new memoir, he chronicles his journey from illiterate to booklover.

Books rise to the level of enduring art, I believe, when their writers take something ordinary and reintroduce it in a way ...

A professor at Hunter College has built one of the largest special collections of contraband Russian literature in the world.

Jared Nigro, 37, couldn’t read until he was 9 years old, but he had a weapon so mighty, so full of love and fun and belief, he would grow up to be an author and even more important, happy and just as ...

Jake Reiss got into bookselling for the money and the girls. Now that he’s ninety years old, he cares less about both, but he ...

A prolific Dutch writer of fiction, poetry and travel books, he was often mentioned as a potential recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

At Bindery Books, a publishing startup, online influencers work as acquiring editors. The model offers a new path for surviving the social media era.

The Philly bookstore community is like no other – from fantasy-focused bookstores to tarot card workshops, here are some ...

Silverblatt’s 30-minute show, which ran from 1989 to 2022, included interviews with celebrated authors including Gore Vidal, Kazuo Ishiguro, David Foster Wallace, Susan Orlean, Joan Didion and Zadie ...