Children and adults alike are coming together to celebrate reading and share stories this World Book Day on 7th March. Get involved by reading up on these fascinating facts about books.

“Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; ...

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

According to the BBC show The Secret Life of Books, Woolf composed the novel in a diary-like fashion, dating each day’s work in the margin and crossing out sections she didn’t like as she went ...

A new year means new books to look forward to, and 2025 already promises a bounty — from the first volume of Bill Gates’s memoirs to a new novel by the reigning Nobel laureate, Han Kang ...