Our national retail binge—Black Friday, etc.—is over, and now, perhaps, purged of our desire, we respond to the other impulse that comes on strong at this time of year—charitable giving, and… Read more »

Rob Nordland at the New York Times opens his recent piece on Islamabad’s Saeed Book Bank with an indelible image. After his father died, Ahmad Saeed took over the office on the ground… Read more »

Last weekend an independent bookstore in Denver’s Englewood neighborhood was vandalized because of a mistaken association with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, aka ISIS. The bookstore’s name? As a Shelf… Read more »

Of the many ways to bond with strangers on a beautiful summer’s day, you can’t beat walking and talking for hours on end. So Melville House and Book Riot (with the… Read more »

Brooklyn has a lot going for it. We have incredible food, lots of parks, art pretty much everywhere, and some kick-ass independent publishers. For people who love real honest-to-god glue… Read more »

It seems like every year brings a couple different lists of the “most beautiful bookstores” in the world. Flavorwire, the BBC, CNN have all contributed a list—even Business Insider has… Read more »

It shouldn’t, but it does, come with a depressing regularity; a society suffers a terrorist attack, and with that terror comes a new enemy, to know, to form opinions on,… Read more »

What makes someone visit a library? Faced with rapidly declining patron visits, library administrators in the Dutch town of Almere felt that they had to do something dramatic to change… Read more »

It’s a good week to be an independent bookseller in Washington, DC! A new bookstore has opened up, and two DC organizations have teamed up to sell books. Local literary… Read more »

UPDATE: Barnes & Noble is not closing its Bronx store after all.  As reported in the New York Times, the Bronx now has no bookstore. (No disrespect to The Lair—for purposes… Read more »