Campaign for the American Reader

Harper and the Campaign for the American Reader are giving away three copies (one each to three different winners) of Pieces of Light: How ...

photo credit: Kristy Toepfer Photography The current featured trio at Coffee with a Canine: Katie Preston Toepfer & Violet and Mr. Da...

Malcolm Burgess is the publisher of Oxygen Books' City-Lit series, featuring writing on cities including Berlin, Paris, London, Amst...

The current feature at the Page 69 Test: Shadow on the Crown by Patricia Bracewell . About the book , from the publisher: A rich tale of ...

The current featured contributor at Writers Read: Barbara J. King , author of How Animals Grieve . Her entry begins: I’ve just finished re...

The current feature at the Page 99 Test: Freedom to Harm: The Lasting Legacy of the Laissez Faire Revival by Thomas O. McGarity . About ...

Today is Shakespeare's birthday. For the Guardian , in 2012 Robert McCrum came up with a list of the ten best Shakespeare characters, i...

Now showing at My Book, The Movie: The Creation of Anne Boleyn: A New Look at England's Most Notorious Queen by Susan Bordo . The ent...

Algonquin Books and the Campaign for the American Reader are giving away a copy of What My Mother Gave Me: Thirty-one Women on the Gifts Tha...

The current featured contributor at Writers Read: Alan Brennert , author of Palisades Park . His entry begins: I read a lot of nonfiction ...

The current feature at the Page 99 Test: American Zion: The Old Testament as a Political Text from the Revolution to the Civil War by Eran...

"The essential idea behind [the term "Anthropocene"]," writes Caspar Henderson , author of The Book of Barely Imagined B...

The current featured duo at Coffee with a Canine: Sam Stall & Trudy . The author, on how he and Trudy were united: I was visiting our...

The current feature at the Page 69 Test: The Movement of Stars : A Novel by Amy Brill . About the book , from the publisher: A love story...

Sarah Manguso 's memoir is The Guardians: An Elegy for a Friend . One of her five favorite examples of autobiographical writing putati...

The current featured contributor at Writers Read: Peter Rock , author of The Shelter Cycle . His entry begins: Rather than dream up some t...

The current feature at the Page 99 Test: The Great Ocean: Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush by David Igler . About the bo...

Now showing at My Book, The Movie: Frozen Solid by James M. Tabor . The entry begins: Is there an author who hasn’t peopled his novels (s...

The current featured contributor at Writers Read: Steven Nadler , author of The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter: A Portrait of Desc...

The current feature at the Page 99 Test: Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939 by Thomas Doherty . About the book , from the publisher: The a...