1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (1152+ words) Disturbing images released in the Epstein files showing passages from Nabokov's infamous novel written on bodies exemplify a world where women and girls are treated as objects for consumption. Clever and dexterous, his writing delights in puzzles, puns and lepidoptera....

53+ min ago  (198+ words) Kristen Quanrud, left, and Anne Hampton, owners of Wandering Quills Bookshop, pose inside of their mobile bookstore in Columbus, Ohio, on April 12, 2026. (Matt Deaton/Wandering Quills Bookshop via AP). .. Kristen Quanrud, left, and Anne Hampton, owners of Wandering Quills Bookshop,…...

39+ min ago  (82+ words) Barnes & Noble's return rate to publishers has dropped from more than 25% to about 8%. The company's merchandising shift is an example of CEO James Daunt's idiosyncratic approach to corporate bookselling: Behave less like a big-box behemoth and more like a book…...

16+ min ago  (807+ words) The books that filled these shelves, arranged in no special order, came from anywhere and everywhere around the globe. Source When I first started working at Discovery Institute in the fall of 2022, the many bookshelves about the office immediately caught…...

31+ min ago  (52+ words) A student-produced documentary on General Robert Neyland is premiering in Nashville. Professor writes book on Robert Neyland To stream WBIR on your phone, you need the WBIR app. Download the WBIR app Next up in 5 Example video title will go…...

1+ hour, 4+ min ago  (384+ words) The award-winning author recommends works by Sandip Roy, Rupa Bajwa, and R. K. Narayan Manil Suri's new memoir, A Room in Bombay, describes his coming of age in a single room that he shared with his parents before his move to the…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (504+ words) Updated on: April 20, 2026 / 7: 04 PM EDT / CBS New York Seventeen rare books, worth millions of dollars, that were stolen from venture capitalist John Hay Whitney's Long Island home decades ago have been recovered." Whitney was an avid art collector who had…...

6+ hour, 16+ min ago  (401+ words) Scientific American talked with qntm about so-called antimemes, the way to fight an idea and the power of collaborative storytelling. So what is a meme, and then what is an antimeme? "Meme" has several different definitions, but a meme, for…...

4+ hour, 36+ min ago  (754+ words) There are communities built around commerce, communities built around ideology, and communities built around convenience. Then there are communities formed through listening " communities that emerge slowly through conversation, vulnerability, art, memory, grief, and the difficult work of remaining present to…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago  (857+ words) We can find healing powers in writing a poem about our present conflicts or conundrums. This requires no special writing skills. We simply open our mindful brain to our experience and jot down what. .. The Healing Power of Poetry Anyone…...