A flood is coming to a local library this holiday season, but it won’t involve any water. Rather, it will be a flood of books ...

What are the poets up to? Watching birds and butterflies, as ever – but in unsettling ways. There’s less swooning over birdsong, more flinching at “the perturbing reverb of birds striking ...

The London Review of Books publishes essay-length book reviews and topical articles on politics, literature, history, philosophy, science and the arts by leading writers and thinkers. Buy a single ...

These e-books can be read on any compatible Kindle device or via the free Kindle app. Go to the First Reads landing page to see the full list of e-books available this month. Once you find a book ...

Stranger Things Season 1 began on Nov. 6, 1983, which is why Netflix recognizes Nov. 6 as “Stranger Things Day.” Season 2 picked up in the fall of 1984, while Season 3 only jumped ahead to the ...

Advertisement What does a banana cost in free agency these days? This is the third winter I’m projecting MLB free-agent contracts for The Athletic. I’ve got a big Excel spreadsheet with a ...

Plans for a biography were stalled, then cut short, when Zehme, the author of books about Frank Sinatra and Andy Kaufman, died in 2023. Finished by his former research assistant, “Carson the ...

UK-based online store Book Depository is being closed down by its parent company, the US technology giant Amazon. Book Depository has told customers it will cease operations later this month after ...

Speeds typically average up to 500 pages an hour, meaning a single operator can scan around a one to two full-length books an hour. The considerable cost of such specialized scanners and paying ...