Seattle's fourth and fifth graders squared off this month in the Global Reading Challenge semifinals, curating a love of ...

Notations made in the margins of a 16th century edition of Ptolemy’s The Almagest were likely scrawled by an auspicious ...

Andrew Tate does not read books. In a clip that resurfaced recently, the polarizing influencer explained why. Books, he argued, are too slow. His brain is “far too advanced” to enjoy such a ...

Reading books, we all know, is good for your brain. Books not only teach us about whatever subject we’re reading about, but also help train our ability for focused concentration and abstract thought.

Arlington Public Library Director Diane Kresh shares her top book picks for Women’s History Month, highlighting influential ...

Book reading in schools has fallen off severely and, in many classrooms, nearly disappeared, but our model legislation, called the BOOKS Act, can ensure that kids start reading full books again, ...

In today’s divisive social and political climate, many people are scared, angry, and exhausted, and mind-body-spirit publishers are ready to help them manage stress. A host of forthcoming MBS titles ...

Until recently I believed that the three greatest contributions audiobooks have made to civilization were providing access to books to the sight-impaired, reducing the tedium of mindless drudgery and ...

It would be a lie to say that books were the only form of mass-media. They weren’t even the first; for as long as they’ve existed, they’ve been forced to compete with other mediums, from theater to ...

Louise Fitzhugh’s 1964 story about 11-year-old New Yorker Harriet Welsch is the book I read again and again as a young girl. Smart, funny, and fiercely independent, Harriet confidently marched to her ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. Hunter discovered that if you recalibrate a course to prioritize “developing a ...

What’s the plan – you do have one, right? No, not one for your estate or your budget or your life choices – sure, fine, do those too – but considering the purview of this newsletter, I’m asking about ...