We’ve discussed whether books should cost less than a cup of coffee. Let’s take a minute to consider the opposite. Should books cost more, rather than less, the standard hardcover… Read more »

Do you feel like there’s just too much flipping swearing in literature? Do you think most books would benefit from fewer darn curse words? Well, you’re in luck. The Clean… Read more »

A new literary prize with religious underpinnings has been established by America magazine and St. Thomas More Chapel at Yale University, Ron Charles reports for the Washington Post. Accompanied by… Read more »

Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe is launching an effort to bring one to two readings per week to their store in Dupont Circle. Last night Megan Abbott read from her latest,… Read more »

The days of serialized prose fiction are largely a thing of the past, in our age of binge-viewing and -reading. Comic books still offer the thrill of a cliffhanger every… Read more »

While everyone knows that the life of a newspaper book editor is usually all free lunches, soft couches made of ARCs, and foot rubs from first time novellists, some days… Read more »

Goodreads took steps earlier this month to limit adult content on their site, and to ban sexual roleplay entirely. That’s right: Goodreads, a site where you (and we) list the… Read more »

Above, Washington Post book reviewer Dennis Drabelle holds a letter from Mrs. Reed’s fifth grade class at Burning Tree Elementary School in Bethesda, Maryland. The letter points to an error in… 2 / Read more »

Just when you thought it was safe to go back into YouTube, Washington Post book critic Ron Charles is back …

Just went you thought it was safe to go back into the, er, video viewing place, Washington Post book critic Ron Charles returns from a long video-making hiatus with a… Read more »