With these new Facebook and Instagram tools, why ever log off? Facebook announced Tuesday that it is rolling out a feature for businesses and their customers that allows users to book appointments ...

The world’s most famous epic has something for every reader. By A.O. Scott Workers at a major publishing house have established what organizers are calling the largest union in trade book publishing ...

“The Simp,” by Roshan Sethi, is a satire of the unending demands, learned helplessness and stubborn racism of Hollywood elites. By Sam Lipsyte In “The Face,” Fay Bound-Alberti examines our ...

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Riverhead signs Yasmin Zaher’s sophomore novel about a Palestinian journalist, Random House takes a collection of writings by the late Steve Albini, and more.

An ambitious analysis challenges the view that a nation’s pursuit of economic growth alone can deliver long-term prosperity.

As 1968 began, Paul Ehrlich was an entomologist at Stanford University, known to his peers for his groundbreaking studies of the co-evolution of flowering plants and butterflies but almost unknown to ...

Each week on The Book Show, host Joe Donahue interviews authors about their books, their lives and their craft. It is a celebration of both reading and writers. Joe holds interesting conversations ...

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Creating a roundup of the 25 best-selling books of all time is harder than it sounds. Books—especially those published hundreds of years ago—were published in different editions and translated into ...