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Bookshop.org to share 30 percent of each purchase with bookstores impacted by coronavirus shutdowns.

Bookshop.org to share 30 percent of each purchase with bookstores impacted by coronavirus shutdowns.

By Corinne Segal | March 18, 2020

How America’s Oldest Bookstore Has Survived Across the Centuries

How America’s Oldest Bookstore Has Survived Across the Centuries

Andrew Belonsky on the Moravian Book Shop in Pennsylvania

By Andrew Belonsky | March 16, 2020

Update: NYC public libraries are suspending all programs and closing to the public through March.

Update: NYC public libraries are suspending all programs and closing to the public through March.

By Emily Temple | March 12, 2020

The cutest feud on Twitter is between a parks department and library in Colorado.

The cutest feud on Twitter is between a parks department and library in Colorado.

By Corinne Segal | March 11, 2020

How J. Edgar Hoover Used the Power of Libraries for Evil

How J. Edgar Hoover Used the Power of Libraries for Evil

Tracking Adversaries, Hiding Evidence, and Other No
Good Dirty Deeds

By Alana Mohamed | March 4, 2020

Volunteer-run, makeshift libraries are popping up at Indian protest sites.

Volunteer-run, makeshift libraries are popping up at Indian protest sites.

By Emily Temple | February 26, 2020

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • House of Day, House of Night
  • The Award
  • Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World
  • Casanova 20: Or, Hot World
  • Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic
  • The Six Loves of James I

I Just Watched You've Got Mail for the First Time and You Guys, It's Bad

By Emily Temple | February 26, 2020

Not a Cult, a new bookstore in Los Angeles, puts authors of color at the forefront.

By Melissa Ximena Golebiowski | February 21, 2020

Compassion fatigue is taking its toll on librarians.

By Julia Hass | February 19, 2020

Inside the ‘Vibrant Intellectual Ecosystem’ of Larry McMurtry's Home Library

Inside the ‘Vibrant Intellectual Ecosystem’ of Larry McMurtry's Home Library

McMurtry on the Few Books He Would Never Give Up

By Nina Freudenberger and Sadie Stein | February 18, 2020

Booksellers! Apply for an International Bookselling Fellowship

Booksellers! Apply for an International Bookselling Fellowship

See the World Through Bookselling Without Borders

By Literary Hub | February 12, 2020

Again, a proposed federal budget would stop funding libraries, and again, it probably won't happen.

Again, a proposed federal budget would stop funding libraries, and again, it probably won't happen.

By Corinne Segal | February 11, 2020

50 Fictional Booksellers, Ranked

50 Fictional Booksellers, Ranked

Pamela Anderson is the Jeff Bezos of This List.

By Emily Temple | January 29, 2020

What are the 10 best American cities for booklovers?

What are the 10 best American cities for booklovers?

By Jonny Diamond | January 27, 2020

In 2019, more Americans went to the library than to the movies. Yes, really.

In 2019, more Americans went to the library than to the movies. Yes, really.

By Dan Sheehan | January 24, 2020

Exclusive: watch the trailer for <em>The Booksellers</em>, a new documentary about rare book dealers.

Exclusive: watch the trailer for The Booksellers, a new documentary about rare book dealers.

By Emily Temple | January 23, 2020

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