Community and Engagement

“You’d be shocked by how many books have women chained in basements,” Reese Witherspoon said. “I know it happens in the world. I don’t want to read a book about...

Joy James speaking on a 2019 panel at the Center for Brown University's Study of Slavery and Justice's Carceral State Reading (www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9rvRsWKDx0)In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer...

And, too, at a time when some educators are alarmed by the ability of chatbots to do students’ work for them, this is a contest that rewards the human touch....

We may earn a commission from links on this page. There are many ways to find interesting books to read, maybe on your Kindle or Kobo. Thanks to the advent...

Larger libraries may not be so necessary in future The recent article outlining San Rafael’s plans to build a new library was somewhat concerning (“San Rafael library supporters prepare tax...

The best way to ignite that creative writing spark is to start ‘em young and that’s exactly what Pickering Animal Services and the Pickering Public Library is doing with the...

Arunima Mazumdar’s tryst with Japanese literature began in 2010 when her friend gifted her a copy of Haruki Murakami’s Sputnik Sweetheart. “You can say that I didn’t choose the book,...

There’s a scene in Sam Raimi’s classic horror-comedy Evil Dead II in which the protagonist saws off his own zombified hand and traps it under a copy of A Farewell...

HARTFORD — The Alpha Beta Chapter (ABC) of Delta Kappa Gamma (DGK), a professional international organization of key women educators, recently honored the winners of their 2024 Literary Contest and...

Tynecastle High School has become the first school in Edinburgh to be awarded the Gold Reading School accreditation by Scottish Book Trust, and they were presented with their trophy by...