In an article in the New York Times on Sunday, Robin Pogrebin reports that the New York Public Library has at last admitted what critics of the now-defunct Central Library… Read more »

What kind of uncle or aunt are you? Are you the fun one? Or are you Frank Bruni? Because now we all know exactly what Frank Bruni is like as… Read more »

Like the Terminator, but fancier, Rizzoli Bookstore fully intends to be back before too long. The well-appointed store shut its doors last week, but the owners are determined to find… Read more »

Yesterday was a banner day for bookstore-concerned trolling in the pages of the Gray Lady. First Julie Bosman broke the news to a rapt readership that rent for retail spaces… Read more »

Back in September the sensationally successful, bestselling author James Patterson pledged $1 million of his personal wealth to independent bookshops across America (we covered the story here). Yesterday, Patterson announced… Read more »

The Vatican City Library and the Bodleian Libraries at Oxford University will soon be able to offer access to many of their rare and ancient texts online, thanks to a… Read more »

Last week, French novelist Gérard de Villiers—a writer frequently compared to Ian Fleming—passed away at the age of 83. De Villiers began writing his S.A.S. series of spy novels in… Read more »

In this weekend’s New York Times, the paper’s Beijing bureau correspondent Andrew Jacobs reported that Western writers have faced a dilemma recently when publishing their books in China: submit their… Read more »

A new sanctuary for rare and valuable Jewish texts is set to open this weekend, Robin Pogrebin writes for the New York Times’s Arts Beat blog. The Center for Jewish… Read more »

Helen Fielding, author of the beloved Bridget Jones’s Diary and the more-or-less-tolerated Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, released an excerpt from her third Jones book this weekend, in the… Read more »