• Bookstores and Libraries

    Gifts

    On the Difficulty of Giving Books as Gifts

    By Lewis Buzbee  December 11, 2023
    Manuscripts

    “Is That a First Edition of The Iliad?” Meet One of History’s Great Manuscript Forgers

    By Christopher de Hamel  November 30, 2023
    Booksellers

    From Local, to Global, to Gone: On the Rise and Fall of Borders Books

    By Literary Hub  November 28, 2023
    The Hub

    Gaza’s main public library has been destroyed by Israeli bombing.

    By Dan Sheehan  November 27, 2023
    Literary Journals

    “We Want to Make It Feel Like a Party.” On the Transformation of Southwest Review

    By Mark Haber  November 21, 2023
    Book Bans

    Censoring Kids’ Worlds: Laurie Hertzel on the Danger of Banning Books for Children

    By Laurie Hertzel  November 20, 2023
    Libraries

    Eric Adams should cut money from the NYPD and give it to the libraries.

    By Jonny Diamond  November 17, 2023
    In Conversation

    Jenny Erpenbeck on Spying, Lying, and Eros

    By Ellen Adams  November 15, 2023
    Libraries

    The Spy Who Shushed Me: How the Government Is Removing Our Right to Read in Private

    By Anthony Aycock  September 18, 2023
    Writing Communities

    The Imagination of Literary Spaces: On Contemporary Literary and Artistic Outreach

    By Viniyanka Prasad  September 8, 2023
    Indian Literature

    A Distinct Medium: How English Became a South Asian Literary Language

    By Liesl Schwabe  September 7, 2023
    What to Watch

    The Library is Open: On Party Girl, Budget Cuts, and the Future of Women’s Work

    By Victoria Wiet  August 17, 2023
    Book Bans

    School Librarian Memoirs May Just Be the Next Big Thing

    By Jess deCourcy Hinds  August 11, 2023
    The Hub

    Just for funsies, Michael Chabon built a replica of the SFF section of his childhood bookstore.

    By Dan Sheehan  August 4, 2023
    The Hub

    WATCH: Dua Lipa visits a women’s prison reading group.

    By Jonny Diamond  June 2, 2023
    Pride

    What Banned Books Can Teach Us: Building an LGBTQ Picture Book Library for Pride 

    By Jess deCourcy Hinds  June 1, 2023
    The Hub

    Channing Tatum dropped some sparkle onto Books Are Magic.

    By Janet Manley  May 31, 2023
    Bookstores

    The Village Bookstore: Alba Donati on Returning to Her Rural Tuscan Roots

    By Alba Donati  May 31, 2023
    The Hub

    Just a few hateful parents are responsible for most of the book challenges in America.

    By Jonny Diamond  May 23, 2023
    The Hub

    Good news: there are more bookstores in the US this year than last.

    By Jonny Diamond  May 22, 2023
    The Hub

    Only in Florida: couple steals rare books, vintage comics, AND endangered tortoises.

    By Jonny Diamond  May 19, 2023
    The Hub

    Hong Kong neck-and-neck with Florida in bookbanning competition.

    By Jonny Diamond  May 18, 2023
    Record Stores

    Why a Small-Town Record Store in Rural Pennsylvania Was My First Library

    By Jolene McIlwain  May 18, 2023
    Marriage

    Kelly McMasters on Starting a Bookstore to Save Her Marriage

    By Kelly McMasters  May 9, 2023
    The Hub

    Chinese man builds bookstore on a mountaintop. Yes, he’s a poet.

    By Jonny Diamond  May 8, 2023
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