Books, Arts, and Culture

I was always a nervous kid. I spent a lot of time at school worrying about whether my friends actually liked me, and then, when I...

Books are having a moment in popular culture. We are living in a wonderful time for books and movies about books, book clubs, and bookshops. If...

Mystery elements form the backbone of many a manga premise. Who are the protagonist’s parents? Where is the treasure they’re hunting? Who murdered their beloved teacher?...

Blank notebooks are my favorites. You know the ones—the hardcover ones, the leather ones, the ones that cost an arm and a leg in Barnes &...

Sponsored by Libby, the one-tap reading app from your library and OverDrive. Meet Libby. The award-winning reading app that makes sure you always have something to read....

Black History Month might be 28 days long—which is far too short—but there’s no reason that you can’t add a pile of excellent books by black...

Sponsored by Flatiron Books.  On a late-summer visit to West Baden Springs — after a hilly horseback ride through the grounds and an uneven meal at a...

Wormholes, portals, wizards, dachshunds, geological time, haute cuisine: these are a few of the things you will find in Kathryn Davis’s fiction. “My sensibility as an...

“When I think about it, I was really raised by independent bookstores,” Elizabeth McCracken tells Ann Patchett in a new interview for Patchett’s bookstore, Parnassus Books....

In celebration of National Library Lover’s Day, the Horror Writers Association (HWA), in partnership with United for Libraries, Book Riot, and Library Journal/School Library Journal, is delighted to announce...