Queer Literature is Booming in Africa
Even in countries where homophobia is pervasive and same-sex relationships are illegal, authors are pushing boundaries, finding an audience and winning awards...
View ArticleThe American Library Association Releases 'Book Résumés' for...
The American Library Association's Unite Against Book Bans initiative has unveiled a new free resource—a collection of "book résumés." Created in collaboration with dozens of publishers, Unite Against...
View ArticleMerriam-Webster says you can end a sentence with a preposition. The internet...
An authority on the English language has set us free from the tethers of what many have long regarded as a grammatical no-no. Or has it? The answer depends on how you side with a declaration from...
View ArticleIn Georgia, a bill to cut all ties with the American Library Association is...
Those who've been trying to remove certain books from childrens' sections at public libraries are now taking aim at what they see as a source of the problem: the American Library Association. A...
View ArticleCourt orders Amazon e-book monopoly lawsuit to proceed
A federal judge has formally adopted a magistrate judge's recommendation that a consumer class action lawsuit accusing Amazon of anticompetitive conduct in the e-book market be allowed to proceed. But...
View ArticleThree publishing veterans form new company to put the author at the center
Madeline McIntosh and Don Weisberg, who have served as CEO of Penguin Random House US and Macmillan, respectively, have joined forces with Nina von Moltke, most recently president and director of...
View ArticleBookish Oscar winners
At last night's Academy Awards ceremony, several movies based on books or with book connections took home Oscars. Shelf Awareness rounds up the major category bookish winners including Oppenheimer,...
View ArticleALA reports record spike in book titles challenged in 2023
The American Library Association announced today that the number of unique titles targeted for censorship surged 65% in 2023 compared to 2022, once again hitting record levels. In a release, ALA...
View ArticleChina Nobel prize winner tarred as one of 'three new evils' amid rise in...
Mo Yan is widely celebrated in China but now faces a lawsuit accusing him of smearing the Communist party amid an increasingly febrile atmosphere online.
View Article'So happy you're here': how a librarian became an advocate for mental health
Mychal Threets has become a TikTok star thanks to his tales from life in the stacks, along with affirmations and forthright commentary on mental health that have brought him nearly 800,000 followers...
View ArticleFrans de Waal, who found the origins of morality in apes, dies at 75
Frans de Waal, who used his study of the inner lives of animals to build a powerful case that apes think, feel, strategize, pass down culture and act on moral sentiments — and that humans are not...
View ArticleNational Book Critics Circle Awards announced
Last night the National Book Critics Circle announced the winners of its 2023 awards - here are the list of winners below: 2023 National Book Critics Circle Awards WinnersNBCC Award for Fiction:I Am...
View ArticleA Gentleman in Moscow to start streaming March 29
Book Club favorite and one of the Top 20 BookBrowse Books of 2016, A Gentleman in Moscow is premiering as an eight part series on Paramount Plus on 3/29. The series stars Ewan McGregor as Count...
View ArticleLauren Groff prepares to open her bookstore
This spring, Groff, the multiple National Book Award finalist and author of five novels and two short story collections, and her husband, Clay Kallman, will open the Lynx, an indie bookstore in...
View ArticleLaurent de Brunhoff, author of Babar children's books, dies at 98
Babar author Laurent de Brunhoff, who revived his father's popular picture-book series about an elephant-king and presided over its rise to a global multimedia franchise, has died at the age of 98. De...
View ArticleHarvard removes binding of human skin from book in its library
The decision to find a "respectful final disposition" for human remains used for a 19th-century book comes amid growing scrutiny of their presence in museum collections. Of the roughly 20 million...
View ArticleDaniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize–winning psychologist and author, dies at 90
Psychologist and bestselling author Daniel Kahneman, whose research on how decision-making and biases can impact economics earned him a Nobel Prize, died on March 27. He was 90. Kahneman was born in...
View ArticleBarnes & Noble workers plan union drive at largest US bookstore chain
Workers at America's largest chain of bookstores are gearing up for a nationwide union drive after six Barnes & Noble outlets voted to organize over the past year. "Many more" stores will...
View ArticleSmall Press Distribution clients scramble to find new distributors
Former clients of Small Press Distribution are still scrambling to find viable options to replace the services provided by SPD before the distributor abruptly shut down last Thursday. SPD provided...
View ArticleHarperCollins tweaks typefaces, saves millions of pages
As you're racing through a thriller or romance novel, you're not thinking about the fonts or layout on each page. But a designer has spent hours poring over each element on the page to create the most...
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