The Borders Book Festival programme is announced today (24th April) and tickets go on sale, as the annual extravaganza – now a stalwart of the literary calendar — launches its 21st edition, featuring well-known names from fiction to politics, sport to current affairs, health and wellbeing to comedy, history to science and philosophy, and children’s…

The National Library of France has pulled four books from its shelves for the most unusual of reasons—they might be poisonous. As the AFP explains, this is not a metaphor. The 18th-century books have green covers believed to be laced with arsenic. It’s not clear how much of a danger the poison would actually pose…

Published: April 25, 2024 Movieguide® Photo Kirk Cameron Fights Immoral Literature in Schools with Family-Friendly Book Fairs By Movieguide® Contributor To combat the proliferation of books that promote immoral content through schools, Kirk Cameron has started Sky Tree Book Fairs to celebrate family-friendly books. “We see that there is such an avalanche of filth and…

Those who attend the inaugural Decatur Children’s Book Festival, presented by Little Shop of Stories, expecting the traditional line-up of author readings and discussions during which audience members are invited to participate only at the end during a question-and-answer session are in for a surprise, according to Diane Capriola, co-owner of Little Shop Stories and…

I had a plan for the year I turned 30: I was going to leave behind the life I’d spent a decade building in New York City and trade it in for a warmer, flashier iteration in Los Angeles. That’s a well-tread trope, isn’t it? The old “NYC to LA to NYC to LA ad…

When Will Evans arrived in Dallas just over a decade ago, he had a degree in Russian literature, a passion for “reading the world,” and a bold vision: to create a publishing house dedicated to translating the best books in any language into English and bringing their authors into conversation with American — and especially…

Eleanor Dash, the Aperol spritz-loving narrator of Catherine Mack’s fizzy series debut, EVERY TIME I GO ON VACATION, SOMEONE DIES (Minotaur, 340 pp., $28) is a chatty, self-aware sort, a novelist with a best-selling series called “Vacation Mysteries.” Her books feature the devastatingly handsome detective Connor Smith, who bears the same name as the man…

Written By: Zahra Rashidi Since children’s literature is considered a priority in society, the lack of access to specialized children’s books in Afghanistan has led Mo’tvva-e-Kabir, the author of “The Golden Finch,” to write a book specifically for the intellectual growth of Afghan children. Mo’tavva completed her higher education and a master’s degree in Persian-Dari…

In the age of digital distractions, it is easy to struggle to find the time and headspace to get lost in literature. How can you get back into the habit? Librarians share the best ways to rediscover reading, make it a regular habit – and their tips for the most unputdownable books. 1. Don’t beat…

LGBTQIA+ literature is likely to be targeted by a new panel set up to assess books for compliance with increasingly strict “propaganda” laws in Russia. According to the state-affiliated Vedomosti newspaper, publishers and libraries in Russia have set up the advisory body, called the Expert Centre, to examine books for illegal content and recommend their…