Rare book and maps curator Eric Ensley flips through the pages of a church cookbook Tuesday in the Special Collections and Archives at the University of Iowa Main Library in Iowa City. The Szathmary ...

The exterior of Bold Fork Books. Photo courtesy of Sam Vasfi. When Clementine Thomas walked into Montreal’s Appetite for Books, a bookstore that sells cookbooks and offers cooking classes, “everything ...

On a recent summer evening, I sat cross-legged under a stand of pines in a quiet corner of Sequoia National Park, feeling a bit like a carb-stuffed tick after a late-afternoon cookie raid. Still, I ...

Independent bookstores are the heartbeats of their communities. They provide culture and community, generate local jobs and sales tax revenue, promote literacy and education, champion and center ...

The publishing world has changed a lot in recent years. In some ways, the digital era has fostered a flowering of creativity, making it possible to publish small but important books, to the great ...

While books are bound by stitches and glue, their stories live ad infinitum. From the moment we are read our first sound-sational Seuss storybook, the written word provides an escape from the world we ...