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Brooklyn was the place to be in the years between 9/11 and the start of the Great Recession. Even as the shady finance bros who would later cause the economy to crash circled like starving hyenas, creativity in music,...

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Here are the...

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Hollywood relocated to Las Vegas this week for CinemaCon, the world’s largest annual convention for film industry professionals and media. The event, focused...

Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more.Book Industry Coalition Opposes Federal Book Banning EffortNearly 150 book organizations, ranging from publishers to librarians, booksellers to advocacy groups,...

We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan BarryThe Shining Girls by Lauren BeukesBurn Down Masters House by Clay CaneYour House Will Pay by Steph ChaA Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí ClarkNext Year in Havana by Chanel CleetonThe Water Dancer...

Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more.Here Are the Finalists for the 2025 Locus AwardsLooking to read your way into the best of science fiction and...

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more.Most U.S. Adults Read...

The news about reading in general, and childhood reading in particular, is not good. Last year a National Literacy Trust survey of more than 100,000 young people between the ages of 11 and 18 discovered that the number of...

In mid-March, Dial Books, a long-time imprint at Penguin Random House, shut down unexpectedly. No one knew it was happening, including the authors or the editors, many of whom lost their jobs. News about the closure offered no answers...

‘To stay out late, to remain awake and mobile from dusk till dawn, to walk the streets all night as Charles Dickens did during a bout of insomnia in 1860, is to enter an unfamiliar state of being and...