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Health

Quick! Someone Get This Book a Doctor.

Not every workplace features a guillotine. At a book conservation lab tucked beneath the first floor of the Metropolitan Museum…

Arts

Quick. Someone Get This Book a Doctor.

Not every workplace features a guillotine. At a book conservation lab tucked beneath the first floor of the Metropolitan Museum…

Arts

Hundreds of Small Presses Just Lost Their Distributor. Now What?

A nonprofit that distributed books for many of the country’s small presses has closed, and the fallout could affect the…

Health

Some Used to Dread Readings. Now They Sell Out.

These days, literary events in New York City can require tickets and be just as hard to get into as…

Arts

Heartbreak and Family Love on the International Booker Prize Shortlist

Books by Jenny Erpenbeck and Hwang Sok-yong are among six nominees for the prestigious award for translated fiction.

World

The Surfer Dude Behind a Famous Jewel Heist

Murph the Surf became an unlikely folk hero after robbing the American Museum of Natural History’s Hall of Gems in…

Arts

Antiquarian Book Fair: From Sylvia Plath’s Papers to Vintage Matchbooks

This year’s New York International Antiquarian Book Fair features plenty of quirky items amid the high-ticket treasures. (Poison books, anyone?)

Arts

Ada Limón Won’t Let Prose Touch the Poetry on Her Shelves

What books are on your night stand? My night stand doesn’t speak to me anymore. That’s because, here’s the truth:…

Arts

A Book Found in a Cairo Market Launched a 30-Year Quest: Who Was the Writer?

For Iman Mersal, the slim novel was “life altering.” She narrates her journey in the footsteps of its largely forgotten…

Arts

Deion Sanders Still Believes in ‘The Little Engine That Could’

Describe your ideal reading experience (when, where, what, how). Peace! I need my peace. I usually read in my office,…

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