Books

Two five-book shortlists have been announced for the 2025-2026 First Nation Communities READ Awards. The First Nation Communities READ…

Join us next week for our exciting events for adults and for children: Mary Roach on the evening…

Ada Limón writes poems of haunting that also operate as poems of joy. That this is not a…

September 19, 2025 3 min read Writing in Your Books Is Good for Your Brain—Here’s Why Annotating the…

WASHINGTON — When it was all over, Kamala Harris couldn’t believe it. “I could barely breathe,” she writes…

The Taliban government has removed books written by women from the university teaching system in Afghanistan as part…

The Predicament by William Boyd (Viking, £20) A second adventure for amateur spy Gabriel Dax, first seen in…

Megan Greenwell. Photo by Loreto Caceres Story Annotations The author of “Bad Company” on the merits of waiting…

My earliest reading memoryI read The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien at seven, in my bedroom in…

Open this photo in gallery: Once dismissed as junk, Wood’s films now feel vital, stranger than ever and…

Store owners (from left to right) Chris Weber, Bethany Streitmatter, and Darlene Ertel. Photograph courtesy The Bookshelf The…

Madison Griffiths’s probing new book begins with “a curiosity worth sweating over.” She’s on the other side of…

Shortlists announced for $5K First Nation Communities READ Awards for Indigenous storytelling