Reading Recs

October 25-31, 2021, is the 14th annual International Open Access Week, a global, community-driven week of action to open up access to research. An...

A group of YA authors have been forced to backtrack over plans for a Non-Fungible Token (NFT) story following an online backlash against the project.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The American Library Association (ALA) praised White House nominees to lead the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Commissioner...

CHICAGO — Problems associated with dirty data lead to massive headaches for organizations both large and small across the globe. And though data quality...

In 'Tides' (Grove, Jan.), a woman leaves a note for her brother and sister-in-law and sets out with a vague desire to visit the sea.

Effective November 1, the former Amazon executive will join the Andrews McMeel Universal board of directors.

Search All collections Subway construction photograph collection, 1900-1950 Abraham Lincoln manuscripts, 1858-1865 American Manuscripts Benjamin Segan...

The festival will return with an in-person event on April 23-24 of next year.

Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, August 31, 1930, Image 86, brought to you by Library of Congress, Washington, DC, and the National...

Rosa Parks (1913-2005) is one of the most enduring symbols of the tumultuous civil rights era of the mid-twentieth century. Her 1955 arrest in Montgomery for...

LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for patrons waiting to read ‘Better Off Dead’ by Lee Child & Andrew Child.

The International Publishers Association's officers were engaged at Frankfurt Book Fair, Bodour Al Qasimi leading activities and messaging.

The imprint, which was announced in August, will publish books by Mona Award, Laura Dave, Alice Hoffman, Ann Leary, and others, and has begun hiring staff.

Save America's Treasures Grants The Save America’s Treasures (SAT) grant program was established in 1998 and first awarded grants in 1999 to help preserve...

Creative writing charity Arvon has appointed Rachel Long as its first virtual writer in residence for its online programme, Arvon at Home.

Virago will publish Mean Baby, the memoir of actress Selma Blair, exploring her career, struggles with addiction, life with multiple sclerosis (MS) and...

October 18, 2021 In 2005, archivists at UNC-Chapel Hill developed “Slavery and the Making of the University.” The exhibition was one of the first systematic...

The 2021 TOME Annual Meeting will take place virtually on October 28, 2021. TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem) is an initiative to advance the wide...

Rebecca Green's book How To Make Friends With A Ghost (Andersen Press) is being developed by the Jim Henson company as a new stop-motion animation series for...

De Forest was not alone in this assessment. William Dean Howells, chief theorist of American realism and longtime editor of the Atlantic Monthly and Harper’s...

It’s Tuesday, which means it’s time for a new batch of book releases! Here are a few of the books out today you should add to your TBR.

Trade visitors and exhibitors at Frankfurter Buchmesse spoke of the importance of supporting trade shows and doing business in person.

Mix your love for books and your holiday spirit by adding these fun bookish ornaments from Etsy to your tree decorations.

Queer BookTok, I love you, but you have to stop acting like all queer books are the same. I need more context in your recommendations.

Just in time for spooky season, here are 10 comics that will help you fall into a tale with witches and other dark, magical creatures.

As I began the journey into my 40s, it was tough to find good books about menopause. Then 2021 hit, and things started to look up.

With the Twilight Renaissance upon us, here's a quiz to test your knowledge of the book. So grab your Team Edward T-shirt and let’s go!

Are you a new reader and confused about where to buy manga? Here's a primer on how to buy manga in the U.S. and your options for doing so!

You love horror…but you also love romance. Get ready to enjoy these spooky romance novels for the thrills and the swoons.

This is when the major nostalgia kicks in. Here are nine books about coming of age in the '90s to help you revisit your youth.

Avast ye! ARR you ready to submerge yourself into a swashbuckling YA pirate book? Walk the plank and take this quiz to see what awaits you!

Audiobooks are more popular than ever, but the question of whether they count as reading is ableist and doesn't consider their history.

Thames & Hudson is working with the new M museum in Hong Kong as part of a "major publishing partnership".

"The traffic going to these websites is losing publishers a ton of money," said Tom Blackshire, director of SEO at Perlego.

Are we ready for a pandemic novel? Gary Shteyngart, the author of “Our Country Friends,” thinks so.

“Churchill’s Shadow,” by Geoffrey Wheatcroft, may be the best single-volume indictment of Churchill yet written.

Consisting of just 15 poems, “Winter Recipes From the Collective” extends the Nobel laureate’s interest in silence and the void, Elisa Gabbert writes in her...

Piketty’s “Time for Socialism” is a collection of recent pieces criticizing the maldistribution of wealth in the West and tracing his own political evolution.

Martin Indyk’s “Master of the Game” offers a detailed account of Kissinger’s diplomacy at the time of the 1973 war.

In “The Deep Places,” Ross Douthat chronicles the illness that continued to plague him no matter what he threw at it.

In “The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven,” by Nathaniel Ian Miller, a young man swaps the daily grind for the unpeopled expanses of the Far North.

McWhorter’s “Woke Racism” is a call for Americans to rethink the debates over racism and white supremacy.

The historian Kevin Boyle weaves stories of war, sex and civil rights into a narrative that argues for a different view of a momentous decade and the years...

Publisher Saqi Books is working with the Reading Agency to provide samples of its new title, Rise, to less confident and reluctant readers.

Bonnier Books UK is launching a "mission-oriented start-up" publisher, Footnote Press, in 2022 in what is billed as a “pioneering” partnership with founders...

Fiona Benson’s collection of poems about fireflies, mosquitoes and the like takes us into a glowing parallel universe.

Quercus has secured the YA edition of anti-racism workbook Me and White Supremacy by Layla F Saad.

Seven Dials has scooped the "explosive" memoir from Lee Sansum, the bodyguard who protected Hollywood royalty and Princess Diana, to be written with Howard...

Ebury imprint Witness Books has acquired Rewilding the Sea: How to Save Our Oceans, the new book by author and environmental campaigner Charles Clover.

Indie children's publisher Owlet Press will publish three titles focusing on and celebrating “the diversity within Black heritage” early next year.