The small and pleasant town of Hay-on-Wye (current population: 1,675, or 500 fewer than in 1870), just on the Welsh side of the border between England and Wales, has been one of my favorite ...

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 ...

Patrons at the Hemingway House of Spirits and Stories can read a variety of used books while enjoying a cocktail, coffee, breakfast, lunch or dinner. The book bar will host open mic nights, live music ...

In early 2024, executives at artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic ramped up an ambitious project they sought to keep quiet. “Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in ...

As Ms. Ziegelman now relates in “Once There Was a Town: The Memory Books of a Lost Jewish World,” she would learn the answers to her questions after discovering the Luboml yizkor book among her ...

I was 25-years-old and living in New York City. I had just finished my first novel, set to dip my toes into the literary world for the first time. Then, I spilled water on my computer, and lost the ...

At least eight states are trying to crack down on attempts to remove books in school libraries, passing legislation that gives librarians more leeway in selecting materials, sets up formal processes ...

Our favorite books this year (in no particular order) included definitive memoirs by music figures as varied as Ozzy Osbourne, Lionel Richie, and Cameron Crowe; chronicles of bands long gone and those ...

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 ...

Our favorite titles of the year resurrect overlooked histories and examine how the United States ended up where it is today Science From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of ...

Correction: This story has been updated to correct a misspelling of Erin Kodicek's name. Get ready to get your tissues out – Amazon’s best books of the year list is full of heartfelt weepers that will ...