Alfred Eisenstaedt's "Kissing Sailor" photograph has become an icon of American culture, a celebration of the excitement at the end of World War II - ...

JR is a French artist and photographer who creates giant portraits of people, which he places around public spaces. Winner of the TED Prize 2011, ...

By Andrew Stout for indiereader.com If you spend a little time on Etsy, you’re bound to come across a handmade book, smaller than a beer coaster,...

Barack Obama's sister has written a book about her life and her famous brother, revealing their first meeting (they have different mothers) and how sh...

The erotic novel "Fifty Shades of Grey" may have topped recent bestseller charts, but it's proven a little too hot for librarians in east central Flor...

Excerpt from Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf’s Moving the Mountain: Beyond Ground Zero To A New Vision Of Islam In America (Free Press, May 2012) I am a...

Maurice Sendak is dead, according to The New York Times. He was 83. The Associated Press reported that Sendak died early Tuesday at a hospital in ...

Lewis Hine documented America as it was, not how it wanted to be. Originally trained as a sociologist, he turned to photography as a tool to highl...

Color. Sound. Multiplexes. Artificial Lighting. The ever-changing history of film is a story of the intersection between culture and technology from t...

"The Chemistry of Tears" by Peter Carey Knopf, $26.00 Publishes on May 15th What is it about? A museum conservator in London learns of the death...

New details have surfaced in the class-action e-book price-fixing lawsuit against Apple, according to tech news site paidContent. The most notable rev...

Written by Terri Giuliano Long for indiereader.com Bookselling This Week just reported that brick and mortar booksellers are making it easier for s...

Excerpted with permission from Words Like Loaded Pistols: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama by Sam Leith (Basic Books, $26.99). Available from Basic Bo...

Unglue.it is a new website that launched on Thursday with a unique proposition: it wants people to come together and pay copyright holders to release ...

Kate Hart is a Young Adult (YA) writer with a complaint about her own genre. More specifically, she has a problem with the design of the covers of YA ...

Excerpted with permission of the publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., from "Likeonomics: The Unexpected Truth Behind Earning Trust, Influencing Behavior...

Should Young Adult books be given movie-style ratings? Yes, according to an academic study. The history of ratings in other media suggests otherwise

NEW YORK -- With a Democrat in the White House, a wave of books is coming out this year lamenting the slow economy and calling for substantial change....

Epilogue by H. Edward Mann, excerpted from The Queen and the U.S.A. (Dementi Milestone Publishing, $35) In 1946, Sir Winston Churchill spoke of a â...

James (Jim) Patrick Kelly and John Kessel are established science fiction authors and the editors of "The Nebula Awards Showcase 2012" (Pyr, $17.95), ...

Saddam Hussein wrote his memoirs in jail, and his eldest daughter Raghad Saddam Hussein is looking for an international publisher for them, according ...