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Jon Lee Anderson is “not done with Afghanistan”, despite having reported on it for more than 40 years, through invasions, occupations, the rise and fall of…

Welcome to Great Adaptations, the Book Review’s regular multiple-choice quiz about books that have gone on to find new life as movies, television shows, theatrical productions…

Welcome to Literary Quotable Quotes, a quiz that challenges you to match a book’s memorable lines with its title. This week’s installment celebrates quotations from classic…

Gwyneth: The Biography opens, where else, with the vaginal egg, an episode that has come to stand for Paltrow’s general ability to sell dumb ideas to…

Authors have until the end of August to opt out. SvetaZi/iStock/Getty Images Johns Hopkins University Press (JHUP) is the latest academic publisher to announce plans to…

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. Andrea Gibson wasn’t, in…

A boast by a Reform UK councillor that he ensured the removal of “trans-ideological material and books” from the children’s section of his county’s libraries has…

See The 4 Books Scientific American Loved Reading In JuneHere’s a collection of exclusive book recommendations, from slithering snakes to a river’s impact, for your summer…

[This story contains spoilers for Prime Video’s We Were Liars.] After the We Were Liars book was released in 2014, author E. Lockhart had a bestseller.…

There are two kinds of readers: those who would choose death before dog-ears, keeping their beloved volumes as pristine as possible, and those whose books bear…