• Bookstores and Libraries

    Book Collection

    The Pleasures of Tsundoku, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Book Piles

    By Antoine Wilson  July 28, 2021
    The Hub

    This new Scottish bookstore will only stock books written by women.

    By Walker Caplan  July 27, 2021
    The Hub

    A new Little Free Library program will bring thousands of diverse books to Detroit neighborhoods.

    By Walker Caplan  July 23, 2021
    The Hub

    Elvis’s annotated copy of The Prophet, gifted to his bodyguard and close friend, is on sale now.

    By Walker Caplan  July 23, 2021
    The Literary Life

    Ross King on the Man Who Changed Bookselling

    By The Literary Life  July 23, 2021
    The Hub

    Which international city’s public libraries lend the most books per capita?

    By Emily Temple  July 21, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Zakiya Dalila Harris in Conversation with Brit Bennett

    By The Virtual Book Channel  July 21, 2021
    The Hub

    A new digital humanities project celebrates Dante’s impact on art around the world.

    By Walker Caplan  July 15, 2021
    The Hub

    Booksellers at Hong Kong’s book fair are being forced to self-censor their selections.

    By Walker Caplan  July 14, 2021
    The Hub

    Alaska’s libraries are facing devastating funding cuts.

    By Walker Caplan  July 13, 2021
    The Hub

    A few takeaways from this list of the best-selling books of the year (so far).

    By Walker Caplan  July 13, 2021
    The Hub

    Powell’s Books is celebrating its 50-year anniversary with a curated collection of 50 books.

    By Walker Caplan  July 12, 2021
    The Hub

    Area woman reads over 150 books… a month!?

    By Jonny Diamond  July 12, 2021
    The Hub

    These are the world’s 5 best, most innovative new public libraries.

    By Walker Caplan  July 7, 2021
    The Hub

    No, you can’t “steal” from a Little Free Library.

    By Walker Caplan  July 6, 2021
    The Hub

    Barack Obama on why libraries are more critical to the American project than ever.

    By Walker Caplan  July 2, 2021
    Debut Authors

    How to Plan a Literary Drive-In: Or, the Pandemic’s Safest IRL Book Launch

    By Rachelle Toarmino  June 29, 2021
    The Hub

    “We basically flipped it.” Take a look at the newly redesigned Truman Presidential Library.

    By Walker Caplan  June 28, 2021
    Bookstores

    The Change You Want to See: From Free Meals to Good Books, Doing the Work in Jersey

    By Ann Kjellberg  June 25, 2021
    The Hub

    On the destruction by fire of the greatest library in the world you’ve never heard of.

    By Jonny Diamond  June 24, 2021
    The Hub

    Is this the best book club ever?

    By Walker Caplan  June 24, 2021
    The Hub

    Amazon is destroying thousands of unsold books.

    By Walker Caplan  June 23, 2021
    The Hub

    Lessons of a self-published writer: independent bookstores are good, Amazon not so much.

    By Jonny Diamond  June 23, 2021
    The Hub

    Brontë enthusiasts have banded together to stop Sotheby’s from auctioning off rare manuscripts.

    By Walker Caplan  June 22, 2021
    Genre

    The Perks of Reading Across Genre as Both Bookseller and Writer

    By Marissa Levien  June 15, 2021
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