• Bookstores and Libraries

    Travel

    Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

     
    By Brittany Allen  May 23, 2025
    The Hub

    The Trump Administration just fired America’s top librarian.

    By James Folta  May 9, 2025
    Underreported

    Eve L. Ewing and pals are buying a Chicago bookstore.

    By Brittany Allen  May 7, 2025
    The Hub

    The Schomburg Library is turning 100 this year—and throwing an epic rager.

    By Brittany Allen  May 7, 2025
    The Hub

    Booksellers and publishers are calling for Mosab Abu Toha to be protected.

    By Dan Sheehan  May 6, 2025
    Bookstores

    Something Good in the World: Let’s Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day This Weekend

    By Maris Kreizman  April 24, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    The Hub

    The Naval Academy banned over 300 books from its library.

    By James Folta  April 10, 2025
    Bookstores

    How Lewis Michaux Channeled a Passion For Knowledge Into Building His Harlem Bookstore

    By Vaunda Micheaux Nelson  April 9, 2025
    Publishing

    The Publishing Industry Has a Serious Waste Problem, and It Needs to Stop Now

    By Lucy Kogler  April 9, 2025
    Bookstores

    Monica Macansantos on Finding Her Voice and Reuniting with Her Father Through Used Books

    The Author of “Returning to My Father’s Kitchen” Recalls Visiting Book Markets in the Philippines

    By Monica Macansantos  May 15, 2025
    Joan Didion

    Five Takeaways from the Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne Papers

    By Evelyn McDonnell  April 7, 2025
    AI

    How is Meta Getting Its Hands on Advance Digital Galleys to Train Its AI?

    By Maris Kreizman  March 27, 2025
    Publishing

    The Reforestation of American Civic Life: What Publishing Can Do in the Face of the Trump

    By Josh Cook  March 21, 2025
    The Hub

    Trump is trying to destroy libraries.

    By James Folta  March 18, 2025
    The Hub

    Schumer “postponing” his book tour tells me he still doesn’t get the message.

    By James Folta  March 17, 2025
    The Hub

    Three unionized Barnes & Nobles in NYC have ratified an historic first contract.

    By James Folta  March 7, 2025
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    There Are Too Many DAMN Commas in Books These Days: Am I the Literary Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  March 6, 2025
    Book Fairs

    How the San Francisco Rare Book Fair Became a Refuge from the LA Wildfires

    Julie Zigoris on the Resilience of Booksellers

    By Julie Zigoris  March 5, 2025
    Bookstores

    The Things We Learned in the Fire:
    On the Destruction (and Rebirth) of a Bookstore

    By Brad Johnson  February 26, 2025
    The Hub

    Book ban boomerang: VP Vance’s book is caught up in military school “ideology” checks.

    By James Folta  February 24, 2025
    The Hub

    Next week, Amazon is stripping away your ability to download your ebooks.

    By James Folta  February 19, 2025
    Women Writers

    Who Were the Women Novelists Who Really Inspired Jane Austen?

    Rebecca Romney on Unearthing a Legacy of Systematic Literary Erasure

    By Rebecca Romney  February 19, 2025
    The Hub

    Remembering David Ruggles, the radical abolitionist who opened the first Black-owned bookstore.

    By Brittany Allen  February 18, 2025
    Romance

    Enemies to Lovers: On the Romance Genre’s Mainstream Come-Up

    By Angelina Mazza  February 14, 2025
    The Hub

    21 Attorneys General are suing to save America’s libraries.

    By James Folta  April 8, 2025
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