The Jackson-Madison County Library Board moved 37 young adult books to the adult section after a citizen request.

In March, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Tayari Jones’s new novel, about two motherless girls and their ...

In James C. Scott’s last book, In Praise of Floods, he questions the limits of human hegemony and our misplaced sense that we ...

A high school teacher surnamed Choi in Gimpo, Gyeonggi, assigned students in a social studies class last year to read career-related books and present 5-minute reviews. Students were given a month to ...

In April of 2023, when I was fresh out of a Ph.D. program in philosophy, I was hired as the nonfiction critic at the newly revived books section of the Washington Post. The shock to my system was ...

One morning in January 2006, Rachel Weaver, a 20-something aspiring writer who was about to start grad school in Colorado, woke up to a hurricane; except the hurricane was whirling within her own body ...

With this week’s announcement of massive cuts at The Washington Post, the paper’s Book World supplement earned a dismal distinction: It may be the only newspaper book-review section to have been ...

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Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... After weeks of rumors about impending layoffs, employees at the Washington Post were informed Wednesday morning that the Jeff Bezos–owned ...

Barney Rosset risked violence and insolvency so that his Grove Press could print unexpurgated American editions of such forbidden works as “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” in 1959 and “Tropic of Cancer” in ...

“Rebecca Newberger Goldstein isn’t the first philosopher to argue that we are driven by the quest to justify our existence,” said John Kaag in The Atlantic. But in her stirring new book, the ...

There have always been ghosts in George Saunders’ fiction, going back to the revenants of a murdered family that haunt the beleaguered narrator of his breakout novella, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline. In ...