In honor of Women's History Month, we asked booksellers across five local woman-owned bookstores to share their favorite ...

Students from Mènontin Nord Public Primary School in Cotonou are participating in a competition organized by the ...

A rare-book dealer traces the books that Austen admired. Many were by women writers who were the literary stars of their day.

These days, Alissa Quart’s attention has broken into strange shapes. But she has found a reprieve in one thing: poetry.

Clay Risen examines Cold War hysteria in an even-handed way, trusting readers to make the connection between McCarthyism and ...

His memoir “Growing Up” depicted her hometown “like a shining city on a hill.” Other authors who mean a lot to the musician ...

One of the easiest ways to get kids hooked on reading is to get them into a great book series. All it takes is a captivating Book 1, and they're off and running. Fantasy, mystery, science fiction, ...

Books have a way of sparking empathy, drawing readers into the lives of characters who may be different from themselves -- or different from other characters in the story. Kids and teens walk in ...

More than half a million Haitian refugees who sought shelter and stability in the United States will lose protection against deportation this summer under a policy change by the Trump administration.

The best romantasy authors understand that sometimes the protagonist has to fall for someone bad for them, even if it's the ...

St. Louis houses a literary wonderland called Left Bank Books where bibliophiles can wander through aisles of carefully curated tomes that would take several lifetimes to fully explore.

This view is shared by most adherents in nearly all religious traditions, including 82% of Jews, 79% of Catholics, 57% of evangelical Protestants, and 56% of Muslims. (From the US Religious Landscape ...