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Remembering Deirdre Bair

Remembering Deirdre Bair

Sydney Ladensohn Stern on a Great Biographer and Wonderful Friend

By Sydney Ladensohn Stern | April 29, 2020

An Alaska school board's plan to take classics off the curriculum backfired (to say the least).

An Alaska school board's plan to take classics off the curriculum backfired (to say the least).

By Corinne Segal | April 28, 2020

Patrick Ness and Luca Guadagnino are adapting <em>Lord of the Flies</em> for the big screen.

Patrick Ness and Luca Guadagnino are adapting Lord of the Flies for the big screen.

By Dan Sheehan | April 27, 2020

Please enjoy some oddly soothing computer-generated jokes.

Please enjoy some oddly soothing computer-generated jokes.

By Jessie Gaynor | April 27, 2020

<em>The Week in Books LIVE</em>:<br> The Best Reviewed Books of the Week and More

The Week in Books LIVE:
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week and More

With Book Marks Editors Dan Sheehan and Katie Yee

By The Virtual Book Channel | April 24, 2020

Here's the shortlist for the Women's Prize for Fiction.

Here's the shortlist for the Women's Prize for Fiction.

By Katie Yee | April 21, 2020

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man: A Memoir
  • Nonesuch
  • Whidbey
  • A Scandal in Königsberg
  • The Quantity Theory of Morality
  • Partially Devoured: How Night of the Living Dead Saved My Life and Changed the World

Watch some free Shakespeare performances, courtesy of the Globe Theatre.

By Jessie Gaynor | April 21, 2020

Here's the shortlist for the £10,000 Ondaatje Prize.

By Katie Yee | April 20, 2020

The ALA's 2019 list of most frequently challenged books is as disheartening as ever.

By Jessie Gaynor | April 20, 2020

Here are the winners of this year's <em>LA Times</em> Book Prizes.

Here are the winners of this year's LA Times Book Prizes.

By Katie Yee | April 17, 2020

Important lessons from Edith Wharton's interior decoration manual.

Important lessons from Edith Wharton's interior decoration manual.

By Jessie Gaynor | April 17, 2020

When

When "Serious" Writers Write Books For Kids

A New York City Book Collection Highlights Authors Who
Dabbled in Children's Lit

By Rebecca Rego Barry | April 17, 2020

And the winner of the $35,000 Aspen Words Literary Prize is...

And the winner of the $35,000 Aspen Words Literary Prize is...

By Katie Yee | April 16, 2020

Chilean writer Luis Sepúlveda has died of coronavirus at 70.

Chilean writer Luis Sepúlveda has died of coronavirus at 70.

By Aaron Robertson | April 16, 2020

Here are the books New Yorkers are borrowing from the library while sheltering in place.

Here are the books New Yorkers are borrowing from the library while sheltering in place.

By Corinne Segal | April 15, 2020

So you're telling me I could be quaranting on Shel Silverstein's houseboat?

So you're telling me I could be quaranting on Shel Silverstein's houseboat?

By Jessie Gaynor | April 14, 2020

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