Nonfiction and Y.A. are hurting, but genre fiction and the Good Book are booming. Here’s how book sales looked in 2025. By Elizabeth A. Harris and Alexandra Alter This year brought more blockbuster ...

“I think that literature is serious, if not more serious, than nonfiction. You learn just as much. I think that the world is lacking in empathy and that guys can benefit from literature.” Photo: ...

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A new phishing and malware distribution toolkit called MatrixPDF allows attackers to convert ordinary PDF files into interactive lures that bypass email security and redirect victims to credential ...

THE BOOK CLUB FOR TROUBLESOME WOMEN. By Marie Bostwick. Harper Muse. 384 pages. $18.99. In her 18th novel, bestselling author Marie Bostwick gifts readers an illuminating tale of good troublemaking, ...

It’s that time of year again for Portland’s readers and writers: Literary Arts has announced the author lineup for the 2025 Portland Book Festival, set to take place Saturday, Nov. 8, in downtown ...

The Pentagon dramatically expanded efforts to censor and remove books with topics such as diversity and anti-racism by ordering all military branches to scrub libraries of "divisive concepts and ...

Burlington County has launched a new program to recycle unwanted books as part of its waste reduction efforts. A book recycling bin has been added to the Burlington County Resource Complex in Florence ...

The day after Donald Trump won the 2024 election, CNN anchor Jake Tapper and Axios correspondent Alex Thompson decided to co-author a book about what had led the Democratic party to defeat, with a ...

Facepalm: A group of authors has sued Meta, alleging that the company used unauthorized copies of their books to train its generative AI models. While Meta has denied any wrongdoing, newly unsealed ...

WTF?! A clever security analyst has proven that PDFs are not just for boring documents and forms. He's managed to squeeze the classic Tetris game into a 60KB PDF file that can run right in your ...