We recently published a photo essay that captured people reading books around the D.C. area. We asked them where they got the books, what they thought of them and why they liked them. The feedback on ...

Are we entering a postliterate society? College students can't read Dickens while spending 25 years of their lives glued to ...

Reading books and listening to audiobooks tap into different elements of cognition, each with their own benefits. So which ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. “A writer,” Saul Bellow once observed, “is a reader moved to emulation.” But what if it’s also the other way around? What if, when we think about writing, we are ...

Finding Read with Jenna book picks is about to get easier! In a new partnership, Read with Jenna and The Libby App are joining together to give readers an easy way to get the latest book club picks at ...

MAC: Slate has asked us—indeed hired us—to talk about their big picture-book package, “The 25 Best Picture Books of the Past 25 Years.” (Did you like how I called it a “package”? Did it make me sound ...

A hands-free “pulley system, or crumbs brought to me by little doves, or something,” would help. Her new novel is “Will There Ever Be Another You.” Credit...Rebecca Clarke Supported by In an email ...

Film and music stars peddle booze, beauty, and everything in between. But the hottest status symbol touted (and toted) by the modern-day it girl? A book. It all started with Oprah Winfrey, the OG of ...

In October, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Stephen Graham Jones’s latest horror novel, about an Indigenous man who is turned into a vampire. By MJ Franklin MJ Franklin is an editor at ...

An Afterlife’ by Francesca Wade. Francesca Wade’s latest book “can be read as a biographical detective story that fills in ...