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The bibliophiles in Christopher de Hamel’s lavishly illustrated book ensured the survival of medieval texts over centuries.

Jeff Horwitz’s “Broken Code” draws on 25,000 pages of internal documents to reveal the company’s tumultuous inner workings — and their devastating impact on humanity.

Alexandra Alter talks about her profile of the best-selling author behind “Fourth Wing” and Alexandra Jacobs discusses her review of “My Name is Barbra.”

Two new middle grade novels insist Hans Christian Andersen got it all wrong.

From mouse holes and doughnut holes to a world without night, these five picture books have it all.

Archival photos of children’s reading rooms at the New York Public Library over the years.

In Jessie Gaynor’s debut novel, “The Glow,” read by Gabra Zackman, a P.R. rep immerses herself in the woo-woo world of a cultlike “spiritual retreat,” and its enigmatic leader.

Taboos about what can’t be shown in picture books vary around the world.

A feminist provocateur, she went on to write about the gay rights movement and transformative figures like the first two female Supreme Court justices.

“The first condition is silence,” says the 2022 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, whose most recent book is “The Young Man.” “The when and where do not matter.”