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A new book, The World’s Most Beautiful Libraries, by Massimo Listri, envisions libraries as art objects.

The bonkers true-crime memoir that’s captured the Netherlands for the last two years is coming to English-language readers next Tuesday (Aug. 7).

It’s been nearly two years since Donald Trump was elected to the highest office in the United States. He’s still not above sporadic celebrity beefing.

This post contains spoilers for the book and 1994 film adaptation of Little Women.

A previously unpublished Ernest Hemingway story will be released this weekend for the first time. “A Room on the Garden Side,” published in the mystery magazine The Strand, is a brief glimpse at life in wartime.

In the process of constructing a new church building, the city of Cologne has stumbled on something unexpected.

If you can stomach the lies of Donald Trump staring you in the face as you are supposed to be getting ready for work in the morning, now you can give his tweets a special place in your home.

A battle is quietly being waged over the United States’ weather data—and its ability to predict its future.

The Beijing city government wants to fortify spaces for readers. Last week the city announced a hefty increase to its yearly budget to subsidize brick-and-mortar bookshops.

Graphic novels are moving up in the literary world.

On Saturday morning Forbes published an opinion piece by LIU Post economist Panos Mourdoukoutas with the headline  “Amazon Should Replace Local Libraries to Save Taxpayers Money.” It quickly received enthusiastic backlash from actual American libraries and their communities.

In April, George R.R. Martin announced he would publish a new book by the end of 2018. True to form, it would not be his years-late next book in the Song of Ice and Fire narrative, upon which the HBO show Game of Thrones is based.

Shuri, the fan-favorite tech-whiz sister of Black Panther’s T’Challa, will get her own comic book series this October. Science fiction and fantasy author Nnedi Okorafor will write it, with illustrations by the comic book artist Leonardo Romero.

By the end of next year, you’re likely to have at least one more drink in your emoji keyboard.

In Michiko Kakutani’s new book, The Death of Truth, out July 17 from Tim Duggan Books, the former chief book critic of the New York Times puts forward an intriguing argument: The American right’s discarding of truth is a descendent of the postmodern movement, which ruled American and European cultural production in the late 20th century.

In 1991, billionaire hedge fund manager Seth Klarman published a 250-page book about investing. The publisher, HarperCollins, sold just 5,000 copies. With relatively little fanfare, the $25 book faded into obscurity.

Greek and German archaeologists have found what could be the oldest known written record from Homer’s Odyssey.

Hope Never Dies, by Andrew Shaffer, comes out today (July 10) from Quirk Books. The 300-page novel is a deeply silly piece of fan fiction by the author of the parodies Fifty Shames of Earl Grey and Catsby, and it’s saturated with detective clichés.

Has feminism gone too far? Are women taking over in fields where, let’s be honest, men are more naturally suited? A century ago, America’s liberal elite asked the exact same questions as those people today who feel men are under attack, and that diversity measures are just veiled PC police work.

A new show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City will delight kids, Afrofuturists, and urban planning nerds alike.

After a two-year hiatus from Twitter, Marc Andreessen is back with some summer reads. The investor, Netscape co-founder, and avid reader largely left the social media platform in 2016, returning briefly and sporadically. Yesterday (July 5) Andreessen tweeted on 27 books he’s read recently and recommends.

Just a little more than a year into the job, Barnes & Noble (B&N) CEO Demos Parneros has been fired.

Until 15 years ago, the document that gave the United States of America the basis for its name was housed in Germany.

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