A Bizarre, Challenging Book More People Should Read The true pleasure of literature can be found in demanding works such as ...

The New Scientist Book Club has just finished our December read, Iain M. Banks's sci-fi novel The Player of Games - and most ...

The true pleasure of literature can be found in demanding works such as Your Name Here, by Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff.

Resolve to read more books in 2026—and start right here with io9’s first list of the year rounding up all the new sci-fi, ...

It was another incredible year in reading. Here are our favorite 20 books—including memoirs, buzzy literary fiction, and captivating histories—of 2025. Susan Choi’s engrossing new novel begins with a ...

The choice to reread rather than constantly consume new books reveals something distinct about how a person processes the world. I'm reading "East of Eden" for the fourth time. My copy is falling ...

When the president unexpectedly fired the librarian of Congress, a prominent legislator denounced the “open despotism which now rules at Washington.” The year was 1829, and as Andrew Jackson installed ...

Last Thursday in Montgomery, the Alabama Public Library Service board voted to move any book that discusses “being transgender” out of children’s and teen sections and into the adult stacks—“weeded ...

Next July, the United States will mark the 250th anniversary of its founding, a milestone set to be celebrated across the country. American history will serve as the centerpiece of many of these ...

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Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America. By Sam Tanenhaus. Random House; 1,040 pages; $40 and £33 A superb biography of William F. Buckley, the most influential American journalist ...

November is here, which means it’s getting darker a whole lot earlier, the wind is suddenly really brisk, and the countdown to Christmas is officially on. It also means a final big push from the ...