Council has elected K.C. Boyd, Tatanisha Love, Janice Moore Newsum and Ziba Pérez to serve on the ALA Executive Board.

On a recent rainy day, a Madison-area book club gathered at a coffee shop in Waunakee. Instead of pulling up chairs to a ...

Author Edwidge Danticat is defending "Mama's Nightingale" after a Darien dad challenged the book, saying it "negatively ...

Madison Square Garden says in a court filing that Charles Oakley's attorney rewrote portions of the manuscript of the former ...

Beware the rise of ‘Marxist nationalism’. As Australian ex-PM Kevin Rudd explains in his new study, On Xi Jinping, China has imperial dreams ...

Organizations that track the removal of books from schools and libraries are denouncing last week’s Department of Education ...

The start of the year offers ample chance to dive into a good book. From lighthearted reads to cure seasonal blues to novels that transport you to warmer climes, the criteria for a good book is ...

In the literary world, this year is shaping up to be a good one for fans of cultural criticism: There are new books about Better Call Saul and biographies of James Gandolfini and Lorne Michaels on ...

Your TBR list is getting longer... The simple joy of reading a book can inspire so much. While we’re turning their pages, we use our imaginations to live inside entire worlds with its characters.

We have a tendency to favor our own species, seeking evidence of our superiority at every turn, but Rowlands emphasizes that “The Word of Dog” is “not a book about the benefits of being ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. Our recommended books this week tilt heavily toward European culture and history, with a new history of the Vikings, a group ...