The children’s area is a magical realm within the store, designed to captivate young imaginations and foster a lifelong love ...

The Lit. Bar in the Bronx, open since 2019, may be the most widely known example of the book-bar hybrid — the walls are lined ...

First Book’s work is an antidote to book bans. It makes diverse books more accessible to students, teachers and libraries.

The book chain Barnes & Noble is staging its biggest expansion in over a decade. (Story originally aired on All Things Considered on March 3, 2023. It's been updated for today's broadcast.) ...

Building a love for reading in your child doesn’t happen overnight, but with these steps, you’re setting them on a lifelong ...

In the afterword to his latest novel, “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” Haruki Murakami writes that authors spend their careers rearranging a “limited pallet of motifs” to tell a “limited number of ...

Ron Charles review: In Ingvild Rishoi’s novella, two Norwegian girls with an alcoholic father begin working at a Christmas tree stand to scrape by.

Just in time for the holiday season, Detroit’s new bookshop and wine bar is opening on Wednesday, December 4. Situated in a ...

Being a community leader in Buffalo doesn’t just mean contributing to local causes. Many Western New York activists extend their selfless work to other cities, states, and countries. Take Evelyn ...

Former war reporter Lara Pawson mixes the mundane with the momentous in Spent Light, her genre-defying portrait of a woman’s London life ...

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Juhea Kim’s riveting novel follows a ballerina in search of a comeback.