A new exhibition at the Center for Book Arts in New York features a range of items — transistor radios, lanterns, cigarette lighters and more — designed to look like books.

In theory, carrying around an eReader isn't that different from carrying around a physical book. They're similar in size, after all. If anything, the portability of an eReader is one reason to read ...

In part seven of Books That Shaped America, University of Nebraska Professor Melissa Homestead discussed Willa Cather's 1918 novel, [My Antonia]," which tells the story of the friendship between ...

From touching memoirs to college campus novels to queer history, here are the books that raised and shaped the LGBTQ+ identities of our staff.

Books can change the way we think and can influence events long after they were written. The Library of Congress exhibit "Books That Shaped America" features 88 books — from Thomas Paine's ...

Megumi Ishitani's newest interview reveals one particular scene in One Piece Fan Letter was shaped by her own experience with fan mail.

“The Chocolate War,” published 50 years ago, became one of the country’s most challenged books. Its author, Robert Cormier, spent years fighting attempts to ban it — like many authors today.

Mr Smyth’s “The Book-Makers” looks across a 530-year period at 18 people whose work has shaped what people read. Most of them have been forgotten. Take Wynkyn de Worde, a German printer who ...

Librarian of Congress James Billington says the titles aren't meant as the "best" books. Instead, he says the library wants to spark a conversation about books that influenced the nation.

The imaginative wonder of books to transport people to other worlds has made it - in sculpture form - to downtown Naperville. Fifteen painted book benches were installed early Friday morning ...

A book-shaped enamel pin of the book. (Are these still trendy?) A sugar cookie in the shape of the book that is somehow both stale and too soft.

In part one of Books That Shaped America, an Arizona State University professor and a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces judge explored [The Federalist], an 1788 collection of essays ...