The finalists for this year's National Book Awards have been announced. Among the 25 nominees are novelists Rabih Alameddine and Megha Majumdar as well as journalists Julia Ioffe and Omar El Akkad, ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. “A writer,” Saul Bellow once observed, “is a reader moved to emulation.” But what if it’s also the other way around? What if, when we think about writing, we are ...

The most commonly banned books in U.S. schools include LGBTQ titles, international bestsellers, teen romantasy novels and a 1962 classic, according to a new report that compares modern-day censorship ...

Here is an overview of the book, via publisher Read-Only Memory: PlayStation: The First 30 Years is the definitive visual chronicle of Sony’s world-changing videogame console, marking its 30th ...

Amy Griffin's "The Tell" was destined for success. For the first time ever, the memoir received joint promotion by the leaders of three major book clubs: Reese Witherspoon, Jenna Bush Hager and Oprah ...

Access to e-books relies entirely on private distributors that have the power to shut them off at any moment. Nearly all publishers of newspapers, magazines, and commercial books, as well as the tens ...

This year’s longlist includes five books by writers who have published short fiction in The New Yorker: Susan Choi, Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Karen Russell, Bryan Washington, and Joy Williams. Two ...

Retro cassette tapes may be making a comeback, with a DNA twist. While DNA has been used as an information storage medium before, researchers have now combined this with the convenience and look of a ...

Disney has shelved its highly anticipated live-action remake of “The Aristocats.” The Roots drummer and frontman Ahmir Khalib Thompson, better known as Questlove, was set to direct the film based on ...

When Taylor Swift’s releases her new album, “Life of a Showgirl,” in October, it can be heard on the usual places, including streaming, vinyl and…cassette tape? The cassette tape was once one of the ...