Why Lafcadio Hearn’s ghost stories still haunt us
The author’s rendering of Japanese folktales made him famous around the globe, but, a century later, Hearn remains the wildest character...
Here We Are: Oliver Jeffers’s warm illustrated field guide to living together on our Pale Blue Dot
by Maria Popova A tender invitation to fathom the shared cosmic destiny behind our glorious differences. When the Voyager 1 spacecraft...
The Yin-Yang of Fortune and Misfortune: Alan Watts on the Art of Learning Not to Think in Terms of Gain and Loss
by Maria Popova “The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity, and it’s really impossible to tell whether...
22 Reasons we’re thankful for independent bookstores
by Arianna Rebolini We recently asked members of the BuzzFeed Community to tell us what they love about their local independent...
The Book of Miracles: Rare Medieval Illustrations of Magical Thinking
by Maria Popova A visual record of humanity’s most eternal fears and our immutable longing for grace, mercy, and the miraculous. In...
How many of us still read a book in bed?
Once I couldn’t sleep until I’d read 30 pages of a novel. Now I watch the news until late Someone should write a history of reading in...
The Wines of Gala: Salvador Dalí’s Surrealist Wine Guide Republished for the First Time in 40 Years
by Kate Sierzputowski Last published in 1978, The Wines of Gala is Salvador Dalí’s eccentric guide to wine grapes and their origin...
World’s biggest prize for children’s books goes to «caring visionary»
Astrid Lindgren memorial award, worth £445,000, won by Wolf Erlbruch, a German illustrator whose books tackle tough subjects including...
Here’s How Many Books You Can Expect to Read Before You Die
By Michele Debczak Life is too short to suffer through a book you just don’t like. For proof of that, Literary Hub has done some...
11-year-old starts club for young black boys to see themselves in books
by Taryn Finley Sidney Keys III hopes Books N Bros can help promote literacy among his peers An 11-year-old from St. Louis wants to...
11 amazing hotels for book lovers
Planning a vacation? Escape reality—both literally and figuratively—by visiting one of these literary-inspired getaways. You’ll...
Before Amazon there was bookmobiles
15 rare photos of Libraries on wheels Long before Amazon, Audible, and other digital book distributors, bookmobiles were bringing...
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s original watercolors for “The Little Prince”
“The Little Prince will shine upon children with a sidewise gleam. It will strike them in some place that is not the mind and glow there...
This Little Bookworm Has Read More Than 1,000 Books — And She’s Only 4
By Taylor Pittman Georgia 4-year-old Daliyah Marie Arana has read more books than many adults. And what better way to celebrate her love...
Croatia is the First Country in the World to Become a Free Reading Zone
From today, all people within the borders of Croatia can read for free on the application Croatia Reads. Entrance to the virtual library...
This Is Not a Picture Book: An Irreverent Illustrated Ode to Why We Read
By Maria Popova “The object we call a book is not the real book, but its potential, like a musical score or seed,” Rebecca Solnit wrote...