At the corner of Puritan Avenue and Lesure Street on Detroit’s west side, an abandoned building is being rewritten into ...

Jenna Bush Hager says she was “so enthralled” by “Upward Bound,” her April 2026 book club pick, that she read it on a single airplane ride, “unable to tear myself away from the beauty in its pages.” ...

The authors of The Thursday Murder Club, Slow Horses and A Pale View of Hills are among nearly 10,000 writers supporting a major protest against the use of AI. Richard Osman, Mick Herron and Kazuo ...

Books are officially in (high) fashion. The luxury lifestyle brand Coach last week unveiled a collection of book-themed bag charms for $95 each, leaning into the growing buzz around reading — an ...

“You can probably get a sense of which films in this book I really love by the use of language,” Ashley Clark, Curatorial Director at Criterion, says of The World of Black Film, the expansive book ...

Books ahoy! The new year promises adventures, escapes, and mind-bending delights for bibliophiles of all stripes. For fiction lovers, there’s George Saunders’ wild ride of a second novel, Ann Patchett ...

Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America. By Sam Tanenhaus. Random House; 1,040 pages; $40 and £33 A superb biography of William F. Buckley, the most influential American journalist ...

The Frankfurt Book Fair opens its 77th edition with a robust lineup of professional programming for today—Wednesday, October 15. From CEO conversations to diversity panels, children’s publishing ...

The finalists for this year's National Book Awards have been announced. Among the 25 nominees are novelists Rabih Alameddine and Megha Majumdar as well as journalists Julia Ioffe and Omar El Akkad, ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Anna Holmes has never forgotten reading Judy Blume’s Forever as a tween. Why? Because the book, published 50 ...