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Alternative for Germany (AfD) was only formed in 2013, but it has become the third largest political party in Germany. Eurosceptic and right-wing populist, it is supporting increasingly far-right views and is now, first and… Read more »

Bertelsmann, the gigantic German media conglomerate and parent company to Penguin Random House, announced earlier this week its plan to become carbon neutral by 2030. In his note to Bertelsmann’s employees,… Read more »

One of the biggest challenges of the upcoming 2020 election will be turning red states blue. In Arizona, bookstores want to help.  Changing Hands Bookstore, which has locations in Phoenix… Read more »

The Guardian wrote a piece about Heywood Hill bookshop, a posh-sounding British bookshop (I’m sure I didn’t use that word right—“posh” that is, not “bookshop”) that once employed Nancy Mitford… Read more »

One in 6 adults struggle to read and 1 in 4 people will experience a mental health issue at some point in their lives. These are the findings of The… Read more »

The political-insider book is hardly a new phenomenon—Tacitus’s Annals, which was named one of the ten best nonfiction books of 117 (AD) by The New York Times, is an early example… Read more »

Like many of us, Canadian novelist Susan Swan was disheartened to learn that female writers continue to lag behind male writers in terms of coverage and literary prizes. Despite modest… Read more »

For The New York Times, David Streitfeld reports that the online super store has been taking down listings for Nazi books including two books by David Duke and several titles… Read more »

Since 1976, every February the United States has embraced Black History Month, celebrating the contributions that African Americans have made to American history in their struggles for freedom and equality. The literary… Read more »

The pending publication of moustachioed former national security adviser John Bolton’s book The Room Where It Happened has run into snags during the process of being vetted by the Central… Read more »

Remember when that library in China got caught burning books deemed subversive by the government? Well, Missouri has decided to throw its hat into the dystopian ring with a bill… Read more »

Philadelphia’s literary resurgence has everything: a groundswell of new independent bookstores, a thriving community of readers, MFA programs, independent presses, a growing coterie of prominent writers, a women’s writing group… Read more »

Gay’s the Word bookshop is an institution and a pioneer. The UK’s first gay and lesbian bookstore (and one of only two LGBT bookshops currently in the UK), last year… Read more »

The Font Nerds are at it again. Few sub-populations of geek are as passionate or committed as that demographic who regard themselves as The People Who Know About Typography. (Needless… Read more »

Stealing is, for the most part, bad. That’s pretty much a universal value we all learn when we’re very young. But thanks to the Internet’s ability to provide us with… Read more »

Dead girls. They’re everywhere. They’re in the window. They’re in the water. They’re in cabin 10. They on the beach—wrapped in plastic. They’re in red coats and in the snow.… Read more »

While the controversy over American Dirt is a-brewing right smack in the middle of mainstream book culture at the moment, the usually much-more-tumultuous YA publishing world has managed to kick up… Read more »

The Cairo Book Fair, held annually every January, is one of the biggest book fairs in the world, and the oldest and largest of its kind in the Middle East.… Read more »

If you were even remotely tapped into the American publishing industry in 2019 you likely heard about Jeanine Cummins’s novel American Dirt. Positioned by publisher Flatiron Books as the book… Read more »