The Nutcracker ballet serves forward a swirl of the chaos of the holiday season.

Flora’s downtown district is a postcard-perfect collection of historic buildings that have stood the test of time. The brick and mortar storefronts along Main Street harken back to an era when ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. The NYPL is offering unlimited e-book access for some of their best-of-the-year titles Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant ...

If the library system in the Canadian city of Hamilton, Ontario, handed out fines for overdue books, the one for a recently returned tome titled “The Excellent Woman” would be a whopper. The Victorian ...

The Friends of the Huntington Beach Public Library have offered a three-year grant to the city of Huntington Beach for the development of the books and materials collections in the library. The ...

Tennessee public libraries are launching an “immediate age-appropriateness review” of children’s and teens’ books following a state government directive, with some calling the plan ...

Customers waited in a line that stretched for more than a block on the opening day of the fall Friends of the Library book sale on Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025. “It’s quite overwhelming whenever you think ...

The novelist anticipated our bizarre present. How does his latest book hold up in an age of eroding reality? Credit...Photo illustration by Mike McQuade Supported by By Parul Sehgal In the course of ...

The push to ban books in libraries, schools, and bookstores throughout the country remains strong. Pioneering actor, author, and activist George Takei has been named honorary chair of Banned Books ...

The good news about Shadow Ticket—the new Thomas Pynchon novel and his first in 12 years—is that it’s one of his private-eye stories. Fictional gumshoes make ideal Pynchon protagonists, guys not in it ...