Solange Knowles launches Saint Heron Library to archive rare and out-of-print books by Black authors

Solange Knowles launches part 1 of The Saint Heron digital archive library, with part 2 rolling out in the coming weeks.

Florida’s culled library book list may be an ‘undercount,’ critics say

PEN America’s Florida Director William Johnson said in a statement he was deeply concerned by the list, including titles by ...
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Novels with a certain structure are more likely to be classics

Novels need a gripping story to stay popular as the decades pass, but it seems that other less-obvious factors may also ...

He logged every book he read for 60 years before his death. Now his list is inspiring the world

Dan Pelzer kept a list of the 3,599 books he read over 60 years before his death. Now the list is available to all.

Solange launches digital library with rare Black & brown authors

The library launched this week with 65 titles, including "Shakespeare in Harlem" by Langston Hughes and "Bloodchild" by Octavia E. Butler. In a statement on Instagram, Solange explained the project's ...

Dan Brown’s conspiracy of cuccess

Brown has occupied a curious place in American letters ever since his thriller The Da Vinci Code was published in 2003.
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Why is Ursula K. Le Guin's 'The Dispossessed' so popular 50 years on?

Marcus Gipps, an editor at large at Gollancz, worked with Ursula K. Le Guin in the final months of her life. Le Guin is one of the most highly regarded writers in science fiction and fantasy; her ...