Books and literature

Staffers at Thank You Books in Birmingham, Alabama, San Francisco’s City Lights Books and The Nook in Cedar Falls, Iowa, are among 600 booksellers receiving $500 holiday bonuses from James Patterson.

New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy has signed a law to prohibit book bans in the state and enshrine protections against civil and criminal charges for librarians who comply with the law.

Kamala Harris and breakout star Chappell Roan were among the year’s most talked-about people. Their names were also among the most mispronounced.

Oxford University Press has named “brain rot” its word of the year.

Award-winning author TJ Klune (“The House in the Cerulean Sea”) on when he felt able to quit his day job and when he first felt like he’d made it as a writer.

Author Aug Stone shared the details of his new book.

The Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to the South Korean author Han Kang for what the Nobel committee called her “intense poetic prose.”

“I Never Knew I Needed You” is on sale now.

“The book uses the same techniques as the show to encourage speech and 20 milestones, all through a playful story!”

Banned Books Week started in 1982 and draws attention to censorship.

Two new reports provide a mixed but compelling outlook on the wave of book removals and challenges as the annual Banned Books Week begins for schools, stores and libraries nationwide.

Amy Neff sat down with Taylor to share more about her book, “The Days I Loved You Most”.

“Mya McLure, The Brave Science Girl: The Toad Cafe” is by Douglas Haddad, a bestselling author and award-winning teacher.

Edna O’Brien has died at age 93. She was one of the world’s most admired and controversial writers who scandalized her native Ireland with her debut novel, “The Country Girls,” which was censored and even burned.

Richard Behar’s new biography, “Madoff: The Final Word,” takes readers into the fraudster’s final years in prison, and all that came before.

Schools out but that doesn’t mean the pages have to stop turning. Here are some incentives to get your young ones to keep reading this summer.

Krystle Boateng is an author, disability advocate and empowerment coach who is spreading awareness around vision health. 

Barnes and Nobles announced Tuesday that any child in grades 1 through 6 who reads at least eight books over the summer can receive a free book from a participating store.

Malcolm Gladwell’s “Revenge Of the Tipping Point” will be published Oct. 1

Nobel laureate Alice Munro, the Canadian who became one of the world’s most esteemed contemporary authors, has died at age 92.