Books
Stephen Talty's Guide to Culture
The detective novelist offers his picks for movies, tv shows and Twitter accounts to follow
Learning to Read May Reshape Adult Brains
How literacy changed the bodies of a group of Indian adults
More Than 250,000 Bibliophiles Are About to Descend on "The Town of Books"
The Hay Festival of Literature kicks of its 30th anniversary festival in Wales
What the Unisphere Tells Us About America at the Dawn of the Space Age
A towering tribute to the future past—and one man’s ego
The Librarian of Congress Weighs In on Why Card Catalogs Matter
The tech is gone, but it’s not forgotten. Carla Hayden explains why
The Icelandic Translation of 'Dracula' Is Actually a Different Book
The mysteries of this Gothic classic aren't over yet
Drag Queens Are Public Libraries’ Newest Storytellers
Early reading just got a lot more glamorous
The True Story Behind Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and Her Mixed-Up Files
Fifty years ago, author E.L. Konigsburg wrote her children's literature classic that highlighted the wonder of museums
Handwritten 'Harry Potter' Prequel Stolen
Police and J.K. Rowling have urged fans not to buy the magical manuscript
Why People Love Southern Gothic
From the 19th century to S-Town, it’s a compelling genre that’s as flawed as its most grotesque characters
This Infamous 19th-Century Birth Control Pamphlet Got Its Writer Imprisoned
Charles Knowlton did three months hard labor and was fined $50
Found: Pages From One of the First Books Printed in England
A librarian at the University of Reading discovered the 15th-century text buried in a box
Asian-American Superhero The Green Turtle Returns!
The character, created in the 1940s and revived in a 2014 graphic novel, stars in a new comic book to celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
Music or Animal Abuse? A Brief History of the Cat Piano
In the early 1800s, the katzenklavier was hailed as a treatment for distracted people
Does Creativity Breed Inequality in Cities?
Richard Florida thinks so. In his new book, the urban theorist says sometimes the most innovative cities also have the worst social and economic disparity
Multiple Concussions May Have Sped Hemingway's Demise, a Psychiatrist Argues
The troubled author may have suffered from Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, the disease that plagues modern football players
'The Outsiders' Was Groundbreaking, But It Didn't Create YA Fiction
Many have claimed that “young adult” fiction didn’t exist before S.E. Hinton wrote her cult classic–but it did, sort of
A ‘Breaking Bad’ Writer and Producer Is Behind a New Anne of Green Gables
You might not recognize this Anne—and that’s exactly what showrunner Moira Walley-Beckett intended
Medieval Medical Books Could Hold the Recipe for New Antibiotics
A team of medievalists and scientists look back to history—including a 1,000-year-old eyesalve recipe—for clues
A Smithsonian Historian Wanders the “Bardo,” Exploring the Spiritual World of the 19th Century
George Saunders’ new novel, “Lincoln in the Bardo” recalls the melancholy that hung over a nation at war
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