If You Skip a Friend’s Book Launch Are You the Literary Asshole?

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Bigoted Bookselling: When the Nazis Opened a Propaganda Bookstore in Los Angeles

Bigoted Bookselling: When the Nazis Opened a Propaganda Bookstore in Los Angeles

Evan Friss on Hitler’s Attempt to Win Americans Over to His Cause

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Never get stranded without a novel again with this map of 6,000 bookstores.

Never get stranded without a novel again with this map of 6,000 bookstores.

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What the Deliberate Targeting of Libraries Reveals About the Nature of War

What the Deliberate Targeting of Libraries Reveals About the Nature of War

Priscilla Morris on the Burning Books and Besieged City That Inspired Her Novel

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The coolest bookstore bars in America.

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A Florida college shamefully tossed hundreds of LGBTQ+ books in a dumpster.

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The Man Who Created the Trade Paperback

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My Local Indie Won’t Stock My Buzzy Debut and I’m Pissed: Am I the Literary Asshole?

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Remembering Samuel Roth, the Bookseller Who Defied America’s Obscenity Laws

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Ed Simon on Free Speech, Book Bans and Court-Mandated Censorship, Then and Now

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Ukraine has passed a new law that directly supports bookstores.

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How a Small Press Poetry Contest Launched Samuel Beckett’s Career

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Adam Smyth on Nancy Cunard, the Woman Who First Discovered the Future Nobel Laureate

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Winning the Culture War Against Queer Kids’ Books

Winning the Culture War Against Queer Kids’ Books

Michael Leali Imagines a World Where Queer Kids Have Access to Books That Celebrate Their Identities

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The 2024 Young Lions Fiction Award goes to E.J. Koh.

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