• Bookstores and Libraries

    Travel

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

     
    By Brittany Allen  July 18, 2025
    The Hub

    A Virginia public library is fighting off a takeover by private equity.

    By James Folta  July 9, 2025
    The Hub

    Two San Francisco bookstores are taking Harry Potter off the shelves.

    By Brittany Allen  June 27, 2025
    Censorship

    Welcome to Pensacola, Florida, America’s Book-Banning Capital

    By Ira Wells  June 18, 2025
    Book Bans

    How a Single Court Case Could Determine the Future of Book Banning in America

    By Anthony Aycock  June 17, 2025
    The Hub

    The 2025 Young Lions Fiction Award goes to Alexander Sammartino.

    By James Folta  June 13, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Travel

    Here’s everything that’s making us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  June 13, 2025
    The Hub

    Oregon has passed a bill to protect school libraries from book bans.

    By James Folta  June 11, 2025
    The Hub

    Your week in book news, in Venn diagrams.

    By James Folta  June 6, 2025
    Books

    From the Ashes to the Dustbin: The Making and Un-Making of a Personal Library

    Peter Wortsman on the Ever-Difficult Task of Saving and Discarding Beloved Books

    By Peter Wortsman  July 14, 2025
    Bookstores

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

    By Monica Macansantos  May 15, 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
    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

    Vaunda Micheaux Nelson on Her Great-Uncle's Contribution to the Intellectual Empowerment of Black Communities

    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
    The Hub

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

    By James Folta  April 8, 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?

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

    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
    Travel

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

    By Brittany Allen  May 23, 2025
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