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As the Edinburgh Book Festival returns, we pick out some highlights ranging from PJ Harvey to Frankie Boyle, Torrey Peters to Ali Smith.

Members of the Tufts University community share their favorite fiction and nonfiction books in—classics, hidden gems, and recent releases

From pageturning thrillers and comic novels to an antidote to doomscrolling – our pick of the best new fiction and nonfiction. Plus 10 brilliant paperbacks, and 10 great reads for children and teens

The University’s Chancellor, Lord Sainsbury of Turville, presided over the congregation, which is held inside the Senate House and conducted in both English

Kathryn Harlan, author of the new story collection Fruiting Bodies, picks 10 books that represent fabulism at its best.

Instead of turning literature into an arena for virtue-signalling and culture wars, let’s make room for complexity, mischief and mess.

The Book of Form and Emptiness is praised by judges for its ‘sparkling writing, warmth, intelligence and poignancy’

This month, Ali Smith joined Policy Matters Ohio as Worker Center Network Liaison, increasing the organization’s capacity to improve conditions for working Ohioans. Smith will support Ohio’s network of three worker centers, the Cincinnati Interfaith Workers Center, the Central Ohio Worker Center, and the Northeast Ohio Worker Center. Worker centers are...

MOST stuff these days is pre-digested platitudinous pap designed to diminish the intellect, dull the mind and regulate responsiveness. But the…

Be warm and well-read with new books from Anne Tyler, Otegha Uwagba and Selma Blair.