This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. The novelist Henry Miller once observed that “a book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you.” If ...

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I was 25-years-old and living in New York City. I had just finished my first novel, set to dip my toes into the literary world for the first time. Then, I spilled water on my computer, and lost the ...

Over 3,700 unique books were banned during the 2024-2025 school year, more than double the number of titles PEN America tracked in the 2021-2022 school year when it began counting. The nonprofit, ...

A crisp fall wind in the air means it’s almost time for the National Book Awards, and this year's finalist list is here. Twenty-five finalists, announced Oct. 7, will vie for the prize in fiction, ...

British novelist Charles Dickens (1812-1870) sat in his study in Gads Hill near Rochester, Kent circa 1860. He wrote one of the best first lines in literature. Great opening lines to books set the ...

In the Welsh village of Hay-on-Wye, where sheep outnumber people and books spill onto the streets, a quiet revolution began. Antiquarian and academic Richard Booth inadvertently launched a global ...

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Book lovers have all inevitably found themselves slogging through arid prose that stretches on endlessly. Sometimes the culprit is a popular novel whose obnoxious characters you’re desperate to run ...