Q: How has the Edinburgh International Book Festival evolved?

The notion that fatherhood and creativity are at odds is plain wrong, as both poetry and neuroscience are showing us

Concord Public Library said it would have incurred a $12,055 overdue fine, had there not been a temporary fine freeze in place.

You never know what you'll unearth in a thrift store. NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Olivia Haysman-Walker about the discovery of a rare first edition of a classic American novel in a London bookstore.

Rome, Italy ranked No. 1 in the literature category of Holafly’s study on passion-led destinations, thanks to its many bookstores and libraries.

The move will provide no-cost monthly titles to 157,000 more children amid concerns about declining early childhood reading.

A portable scanner allowed scientists to decipher messages no human has seen in four millennia.

How a lowly children’s book became a global phenomenon, spawning a legendary world, blockbuster films, and a massive merchandise empire.

The paper was found inside a collection of early Christian manuscripts purchased by Utrecht University in the mid-20th century.

A Cambridge-led study tracking more than 10,000 adolescents in the U.S.-based Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development cohort, involving researchers from the University of Cambridge, University of W...

Dr Katie Walter says this "reminds us that people were also rescuing, valuing and caring for books".

Dillard's work was characterized by spare prose and a deep connection to nature. She is best known for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, An American Childhood, The Maytrees and The Writing Life.

Whether it’s while waiting for the train or chilling solo at a cafe, a tiny nation in Southeast Asia is nudging its people toward an increasingly elusive habit: reading.

The ten contenders for the National Book Award for Translated Literature Find the New Yorker announcement here. New York, NY (September 15, 2026) – The National Book Foundation today announced the Lon...

Leading Palestinian writer Raja Shehadeh has documented Israel's occupation of the West Bank since day one. Fearing the occupation might consume his archive, he secretly moved it to Scotland

She grew up in New York, lived in Swarthmore and Philadelphia for more than 50 years, and taught a variety of classes at Temple from 1974 to her retirement in 2011.

Judges praised A Piece of Red Cloth as a ‘landmark achievement in fiction’, with Kate Wild, Zana Fraillon and Rohan Howitt also winning in their categories

NEW YORK (AP) — Salman Rushdie, a U.S. citizen for the past decade, is to receive a literary honor reserved for the elite of American writers — a National Book Award medal for lifetime achievement.

On my second day as a rookie English teacher at my alma mater, Stuyvesant High School, I walked down the fourth floor hallway on my way to class. Behind a thick column, lurking in the shadows, a ki…

A woman and child lose one another under fluorescent bulbs. Scouring aisles, the mother trumpets alarm. Alone. Halved. Cleaved by her sudden emptiness. The child curls to a fiddlehead in the cave o…

Professor Agathe Mezzadri-Guedj from NEOMA Business School argues that studying literature is increasingly important in a high-tech world

A parent who reads with enthusiasm, listens to a childs questions and lets them choose a favorite story may be creating something far more meaningful than a simple nightly literacy exercise. They may ...

INDIANAPOLIS — A historic Indianapolis-based literary publication is planning to stop producing print editions at the beginning of next year. The Saturday Evening Post — a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that …

Robert Sindelar (l.), co-owner of the beloved Seattle-area bookstore, has announced the launch of a donation-supported program to provide books for young readers. Becky Walsh (r.) will manage programs...

The activist’s memoir, due to be published this month, now stands as a posthumous testament to her remarkable life

A lover of forests, the farmer, author and former English professor died on Thursday, according to his family and the New York Times. He was 92.

I once asked ChatGPT to write a poem about a total solar eclipse in the style of Walt Whitman. It returned a dozen couplets of cliches that touched nothing, changed nothing in me. The AI had the wh…

A suspicion of prose poetry permeated Anglophone countries in the 20th century. Today, it is rejuvenating poetic traditions.

The ten best opening lines in literary history.

Celebrate Children's Book Week with our kids' books quiz — and grab some costume ideas at the same time.

Dolly Parton was an avid reader and dedicated over 30 years to giving children free books. Here's how the literary world will remember her.

The awards in three categories, worth $150,000 in total, were established in 2014.

Researchers say texts from 12th to 15th centuries ‘hint at a culture which has not even been imagined’

In 2025, she distributed 2,450 free books, ranging from board books to chapter books.

UK anthology inspired by question: ‘Where are our black and Asian nature writers?’ has boosted interest in genre

Literary travel — call it a ‘book-cation’ or ‘readaway’ — is having a moment as a boom in bookish trips range from daytrips to week-long holidays.

Created in 2023, the Inside Literary Prize is a national honor awarded annually by a jury of hundreds of incarcerated readers, founded by Freedom Reads, the National Book Foundation, the Center for Ju...

In the 1960s and 1970s, Ursula K. Le Guin wrote speculative fiction shaped by her interests in environments and ecologies, her pacifist anarchist feminism, and her anti-Vietnam War activism. A Wiza…

"The Antiquities of Athens" had likely been missing from an Australian library since the 1870s. Staffers say its recovery is "an unlikely story of survival (of the book) and redemption (of the borrowe...

Pack your beach bags and bookmarks

Contrary to popular belief, reading—our favorite thing in the world—needn’t be antisocial. Earlier this summer, The New York Times dubbed this the year of literary group travel. This fall, I&…