Books take us to places we may never visit. A few take us into the future, whereas others carry us back into the past. Verifiable wrongdoing fiction books are extraordinary…
Romance is the heart beat of human emotion, and few matters capture it higher than a nicely-written romantic novel. For newbie readers, entering into the world of romantic fiction is…
How To Stay Sustainable With Producing Paper Books? Examining environmentally friendly book printing demonstrates the significant influence the publishing industry has on the environment. Offices consume a lot of paper—more…
I spent a lot of hours in the town library as a kid — my mother volunteered there, before she earned her graduate degree and became a school librarian a…
Reading Suzanne Collins’s “Hunger Games” trilogy, which concluded a decade ago, was a feverish, disturbing, exhilarating, all-consuming experience. Its premise was horrible: that in the dystopian world of Panem, built…
Almost as soon as it appeared, Covid-19 seeded a peculiar and deep dread of the literature it might someday inspire. “Novel coronavirus” — in the literary sense — already conjures…
Have you ever wondered how forks ended up with four tines, where to store off-season clothes when you live in a small space, or why there’s green felt on pool…
Subscribe: iTunes | Google Play Music | How to Listen Lauren Sandler’s new book, “This Is All I Got,” follows one year in the life of Camila, a young homeless mother…
If flu-pandemic books make cold sufferers anxious and zombie books make agoraphobics jittery, here’s something to rattle the Zyrtec set. You name an allergy, and adolescent Anaya in Kenneth Oppel’s BLOOM…
In 1948, Stephen Spender wrote for the Book Review about Albert Camus’s “The Plague,” a novel about an epidemic spreading across the French Algerian city of Oran. “The Plague” is a…
Chapter 2 A shock when we reached the delta, with its braiding and shifting sandbars: unwelcome colonists had beached upon our shores. Before, when we’d come down to the ocean, the dunes…
Recent books of interest: BROWN ALBUM: Essays on Exile and Identity, by Porochista Khakpour. (Vintage, paper, $16.) In these essays, spanning more than a decade, the Iranian-American novelist and memoirist reflects…
