An announcement from Simon & Schuster’s publisher left the literary community wondering whether blurbs, the little snippets ...

For the novelist Rebecca Makkai, writing blurbs had become nearly a full-time job. She explains why blurbs matter — and why ...

World War II is “fertile storytelling ground” for the new book “Hold Strong,” writes AP reviewer Rob Merrill about the work ...

Shattered, a bare, tumultuous memoir of the first year of Kureishi’s new life, published in the United Kingdom in October ...

Ben Packard was 12 when he saw his brother Nick sneak out the door of their grandparents’ lake house in the middle of a ...

Groundhog Day predictions about the coming of spring put the spotlight on Punxsutawney Phil every Feb. 2, but celebrating the midpoint between the shortest and darkest day of the year and the ...

We live in a time of prophets. The planet’s richest man has vowed to colonize Mars. Chatbots and AI portend job losses. And for bibliophiles, dystopian fiction explores the grim near-future, from ...

This National Geographic book is much more than a coffee table tome, although you could easily spend hours just poring over the photographs: black-and-white reproductions from Shackleton’s voyage, and ...

In “Bibliophobia,” Sarah Chihaya combines criticism and memoir to write about reading’s role in a life’s highs and lows ...

We now have a final runtime for Marvel Studios' Captain America: Brave New World, along with confirmation on the number of ...

Saran Indokera from Trivandrum has set a new world record with his 6-second film, The Mask, recognized by Kalam’s World ...