Books

Chester County’s libraries closed for about a third of 2020, but librarians say they were busy as ever — lending out everything from books to seeds to information.

Syncretic Press publisher Enrique Morás of Wilmington helps Spanish-speaking students see themselves in children’s books that don’t shy away from deep topics.

Breathing: it's something that most of us don't even think about, until we have trouble doing it.

Danielle “The Hoodbrarian” Jackson shares her extensive book collection and love of reading to help fill a gap in her community in Camden and beyond.

Is the voice in your head too critical? Does it make you more anxious instead of less? Psychologist Ethan Kross discusses how to control our self-talk.

An online audience that included people from Botswana and Albania heard authors and illustrators talk about their work at the Philly-based event.

Maria Kefalas discusses her memoir about coping with her daughter Calliope's terminal illness and how she learned to turn her grief into action and advocacy.

On Feb. 6, the usually Philly-based African American Children's Book Fair, will be online, interactive, and feature more than 30 authors and illustrators.

Siberia's landscape has long been defined by ice, wind, and darkness. But underneath the region's bleak history and barren geography lives a uniquely Siberian piano culture.

A rise in pandemic reading and demand for works written from the Black perspective or about social justice made a unique moment in time, the owner says.

Pulitzer-winning “The Tradition” by Jericho Brown has been picked for One Book One Philadelphia, the first time the citywide reading project chose poetry.

Journalist Thomas Ricks discusses his new book "First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country."

Literary collective Blue Stoop is surviving the pandemic by focusing on the local community.

National Book Award winner James McBride, author of "The Good Lord Bird, joins Marty to talk about his newest novel, "Deacon King Kong."

Former President Barack Obama's “A Promised Land” sold nearly 890,000 copies in the U.S. and Canada in its first 24 hours.