In 1831, the editor of the India Gazette wrote a report about a group he called the “Radicals”, “Ultra-Reformers” or “the Ultras”, who were responsible for an unprecedented upheaval in ...

The throughline of our Reviews of the Year has been that 2024 was unsurpassed for Fiction and a slog in Non-Fiction. How much of a slog depends on which part of the market. For Nielsen BookScan ...

Courtesy the publishers If reading more was your New Year’s resolution, but you haven’t cracked open a single book, look no further than our must-read non-fiction picks for 2025. These are ...

Winter’s chill offers the perfect excuse to settle in with a captivating book, and the 2025 nonfiction lineup is brimming with must-reads for every curiosity. The January-April publishing season ...

Jérôme Sueur’s “Natural History of Silence” and Pico Iyer’s “Aflame” explore the quiet (and the sounds) that sustain us “I Dream of Joni” by Henry Alford and “Song So Wild and ...

Local author Jolene McDonald stopped by at the library recently to read her book, “I Will Not Go To Sleep Tonight!” McDonald, who lives in Litchfield, wrote this sweet book, which was illustrated ...

But, when I break down what I so enjoy about reading, it has nothing to do with the fictitious nature of the account, rather, the way it’s told. As the saying goes, sometimes truth is stranger than ...

Non-fiction does feel more like an intellectual commitment. It’s less of an escape from the world than something to make us more a part of it. Given what these flattering reading patterns tell ...

Here's what the experts say about our reading habits—and whether you should change them. Though the average American only spends about half an hour reading a day, they spend several hours online ...

Today, I’m highlighting the top 10 adult non-fiction books checked out from the Spirit Lake Public Library last year. Two notable discoveries: half of these books were published before 2024, and ...

During her time at CNET, Kim Wong-Shing loved demystifying the world of wellness to make it accessible to any reader. She was also passionate about exploring the intersections of health, history ...