• Bookstores and Libraries

    Joan Didion

    Five Takeaways from the Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne Papers

    Evelyn McDonnell on Feminism, Family, and Feuds

     
    By Evelyn McDonnell  April 7, 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 Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Book Fairs

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

    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
    AI

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

    Maris Kreizman: One of the Richest Companies in the World is Stealing From the Rest of Us

    By Maris Kreizman  March 27, 2025
    Women Writers

    Who Were the Women Novelists Who Really Inspired Jane Austen?

    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

    How Authors Against Book Bans helped defeat attempted library censorship in Florida.

    By James Folta  February 12, 2025
    The Hub

    Late capitalism got you down? Join this (free!) Fredric Jameson study group.

    By Brittany Allen  February 11, 2025
    The Hub

    Israeli police raided Palestinian-owned bookstores in Jerusalem and arrested the owners.

    By James Folta  February 10, 2025
    The Hub

    Libraries are already contending with crappy, AI-generated books.

    By James Folta  February 5, 2025
    Budgets

    How Trump’s Illegal Administrative Coup Threatened Funding for Everything, Including Libraries.

    “They are not afraid to threaten vast swathes of vulnerable Americans—the point is to be cruel and to punish.”

    By James Folta  January 30, 2025
    The Hub

    It’s official: Research has found that libraries make everything better.

    By James Folta  January 28, 2025
    The Hub

    Read Mosab Abu Toha’s statement on the destruction of the Edward Said Library in Gaza.

    By Dan Sheehan  January 24, 2025
    Travel

    Make 2025 the year you read more books in translation.

    By Brittany Allen  January 21, 2025
    The Hub

    Stuck in a reading rut? Sign up for the annual Free Black Women’s Library Reading Challenge.

    By Brittany Allen  January 14, 2025
    The Hub

    You can now find Jhumpa Lahiri’s first drafts at the New York Public Library.

    By Brittany Allen  January 13, 2025
    Mutual Aid

    Here’s How You Can Help Fire-Affected Angelenos

    By Brittany Allen  January 10, 2025
    The Hub

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

    By James Folta  February 19, 2025
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