The US's controversial TikTok ban has meant millions of BookTok users fleeing the platform in search of a new home for their ...

Though Spotify is still music streaming’s resident behemoth with 626 million users, last month’s Wrapped, often a marketing ...

With a ban looming, publishers are hoping to pivot to new platforms, but readers fear their community of book lovers will never be the same. By Alexandra Alter In a vibrant collection of ...

In Kwame Alexander’s new verse novel and Karen L. Swanson’s nonfiction picture book, Black girls pursue their dreams of playing big-league baseball. As spooky season approaches, the master of ...

As in To Kill a Mockingbird or The Brothers Karamazov, Doctorow devotes the entire first half of his book to world-building. In Harper Lee’s book, this introduces readers to the town of Maycomb ...

“Code Green” is a sci-fi-inspired escape room with a heavy backstory and complex puzzles. It also resides in a dorm room at UCLA.

There’s a stark dissonance between the values of Facebook and the Buy Nothing groups on the platform. It’s a dark winter ...

The bestselling author of “Presumed Innocent” has a new masterful legal thriller. A judge named Rusty finds his peaceful retirement disrupted when his troubled stepson and his girlfriend ...

‘The New Shadow,’ which Tolkien left unfinished at his death, has a chilling warning about the dangers of historical amnesia and peacetime rot.

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18 at 7 p.m., the Catskill Mountain Foundation (CMF) presents a concert inspired by Andalusina and Venezuelan Musical roots at the Doctorow Center for the Arts in Hunter. Born in Venezuela ...

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.