• People Are Less Dismissive of Ideas They Hear Than Those They Read, Study Finds
• Why Reading Aloud Helps You Remember More Information
• You Remember in the Opposite Order as You See
• Burgeoning British Appreciation of Pseudo-Profound Baloney
• Scientists Identify Precisely What Makes a Poem Pleasing
2017 Book Lists
• ‘If Only I’d Been Warned!’ – Writers Choose Books to Give to Their Younger Selves
• The Best Books of 2017, If You Combine 21 “Best Books of 2017” Lists
• University of Iowa Cataloging 4,000 Tiny Literary Jewels
• Bill Gates: 5 Amazing Books I Read in 2017
• Here’s Bill Gates’s 2017 Holiday Reading Lis…
Unusual Museums
• Clue, Wiffle Ball, Paper Airplane Enter Toy Hall of Fame
• Is It Time We Built a Museum of the History of American History?
• A South London Park of Inaccurate Dinosaur Sculptures That Must Legally Stay Inaccurate
• Inside Connecticut’s Secret Museum of Retro-Future Oddities
Reading Recollections
• Whole Earth Contributor Lloyd Kahn Walks Us Through a Rare First Edition of the Iconic Catalog
• How Many of These Jazz Age Classics Have You Read?
• Watership Down Author’s Personal Library Reveals Precious Treasures
• The 100 Best Nonfiction Book: No 93 — Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial, or a Brief Discourse of the Sepulchral Ur…
Poignant Memoir Moves from Afar
• Why a 19th Century American Slave Memoir Is Becoming a Bestseller in Japan’s Bookstores
• A 19th-Century American Slave Memoir Is a Huge Hit in Japan
• ‘This Is Surreal’: Descendants of Slaves and Slaveowners Meet on US Plantation
• Networking Group Invites White People to ‘Come Meet a Black Person’
Bedtime Stories
• How Many of Us Still Read a Book in Bed?
• 11 Ridiculously Overdue Library Books (That Were Finally Returned)
• The 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time: No 92 — The Diary of Samuel Pepys (1660)
• Umberto Eco on Unread Books
• Found: A Long-Lost Copy of John Donne’s Fart-Filled Satire
• 12 of the World’s Most …
Animal Inspiration
• NASA Turns to Lobsters to Help Locate the Sources of Gravitational Waves
• The Secrets of Gecko Tails Could Help Heal Human Spine Injuries
• Slime from This 300 Million-Year-Old Creature Could Create Bulletproof Body Armor
• Meet the Monster Whose Bite Is Saving Lives
• Jellyfish-Inspired E-Skin Glow…
Country Diary 4
• Top 10 Books about Pastoral Life
• Country Diary: In the Slow Lane of an Old Roman Road
• Country Diary 1917: Passing Companionship in the Wood
• Country Diary: One Spider to Make a Song and Dance About
• Country Diary 1967: Summit Cairn Vandals
• Country Diary: Insects Still Find Sanctuary in the P…
Human Nature 2
• Seven Things We Wish We Didn’t Care About But Do
• 13 Questions That Will Change Your Life
• ‘Screw It, Just Do It’: Life Advice from Sir Richard Branson
• Why Adults Need to Play More Often
• The Science Behind Why People Who Prefer the Window Seat Are More Selfish
• The Art of Thinking Wel…
Books to School
• Jimbocho: Spending a Day in Tokyo’s Book District
• Drawn and Quarterly’s Incredible Montreal Book Store
• A Love Letter Fell out of an Old Paris Guidebook — and Set a Filmmaker on an Obsessive Quest
• New Zealand Library Cracks Case of the Missing Books
• New Zealand Library Solves Mystery of Missing Book…
Country Diary 3
• Country Diary 1917: Bungled Wasps’ Nest Theft Leads to Discovery
• Country Diary: Sycamores Create Painterly Clumps of Colour and Shade
• Country Diary: The Air Is Heavy with the Scent of Apples
• Country Diary: Up to the Gills in Toadstool Spores
Country Diary 2
• Country Diary: Stalking Red Deer on the Fringes of the City
• Country Diary 1917: Fungi Flourishes amid Autumn Decay
• Country Diary: Henry III’s Charter Helped This Tree Survive to a Ripe Old Age
• Country Diary: The Autumn Run Is a Bruising Experience for the Fish
Popcorn, Pooh, & People Power
• How a Piece of Popcorn Inspired a Hit Children’s Book
• The 10 Best Children’s Books for Adults
• Children’s Books Roundup: The Best New Picture Books and Novels
• Goodbye Christopher Robin Review: Not-So-Cuddly Biopic Reveals the Sadness Behind Winnie-the-Pooh
• Only Children’s Books wit…
Short Story Collections
• 50 Inspiring Quotes about Writing from the World’s Greatest Authors
• Tell a Story in Six Words — Mystery Writers Dare You to Try
• Drama Book Shop Celebrates Its Centennial. But Is It Too Late?
• “15 Short Story Collections Every Guy Should Read”
• “The Man’s Essential Library”
• 5 Classic Novels Everyone Should Read
Ishiguro Wins Nobel
• Kazuo Ishiguro: Nobel Prize Winner and a Novelist for All Times
• Ishiguro’s Nobel Prize Win Is Another Year of Disappointment for Haruki Murakami Fans
• Japanese Roots of Nobel Winner Kazuo Ishiguro Celebrated
• Kazuo Ishiguro: ‘There Is a Slightly Chilly Aspect to Writing Fictio…
Country Diary 1
• Country Diary: The House Martins Have Taken Their Song and Departed
• Country Diary 1917: Ducks Float Like Toy Birds in the Early Haze
• Country Diary: Dark Trees Guard Even Darker Mysteries
• Country Diary: Solitary Wasp’s Embrace Means the End of the Road
Book Business
• The Strawberry and Raspberry Hybrid Theory: Country Diary 100 Years Ago
• The 100 Best Nonfiction Books: No 85, Common Sense by Tom Paine (1776)
• How the Rise of Paperback Books Turned to Kill a Mockingbird into a Literary Classic
• How to Rescue a Wet Book
• How to Rescue a Wet, Dama…