Learn the history of gossip or why we love to swim in these nonfiction books and you'll sound smarter at your next dinner party.

This year’s the Nigeria Prize for Literature longlist showcases a diverse range of narratives. In some of them, ghosts and ...

This month's reading list includes a quirky sci-fi robot tale and new novels from Jason Mott and R.F. Kuang, along with a ...

Has he done something wrong? Has he failed to read the right books? As he grows older, working a decent-paying tech job in ...

EXCLUSIVE: Dr Hilary Jones has worked with Richard Madeley for years on ITV while working as GMB's Health Editor ...

The journalists at NPR who report on books are also avid readers. We asked NPR staff how they decide which books and authors to cover, with the big book publishers alone putting out roughly 100,000 ...

There was no Goodreads in 1962, the year Dan Pelzer spent making his way through the library of paperbacks set aside for ...

Battleship Cove is hosting 'Love Letters from the Front,' real letters from GIs being read by performers. Plus, see what ...

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The author of On Book Banning, a literary critic and associate professor at the University of Toronto, spoke about censorship ...

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Armstrong’s message is clear: put down the phone, pick up a book, and talk to a real human. Go to that reading. Attend that conference. Hell, start a book club and argue passionately about whether the ...