Throughout its pages, he shares his deeply personal story about growing up Mormon, finding fame as a teen, and the courage it took to fully embrace life as a gay man. He might be known as Gay ...

Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao was removed from an English class at the public school. PEN America says it ...

Rio de Janeiro's Carnival is using samba parades to spotlight Black Brazilian women writers who rarely get public recognition ...

This very special live recording of World Book Club in Paris features celebrated French novelist Laurent Binet in ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Following major expansions to Spotify’s podcast branch, the audio streamer is turning its attention to its ...

The enigma of language is that we humans can master it without having any idea how it works. Everyone learns to speak. Everyone communicates with the people around them. Everyone has an internal ...

An international group of literacy education experts are calling on teachers and parents to adopt a new framework for teaching critical consciousness in children through the way they learn to view the ...

Sheena Shah and Matthias Brenzinger discuss their recording of Mathabang Hlaela speaking in the endangered language of siPhuthi with her as young girls watch, in the village of Ha Sekhobe in Daliwe ...

Amazon announced on Thursday the launch of Kindle Translate, an AI-powered translation service designed for authors using Kindle Direct Publishing to broaden their reach. The service initially ...

This year’s Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL), which runs in the western Mexican city from Saturday, November 29, to Sunday, December 7, promises some 3,000 events and activities, the presence ...

For something that happens mostly alone and in silence, reading can be surprisingly intimate. Our favorite books reveal our interests, inspire the way we think, and offer storylines and fantasies we ...