Put down the tome – there are easier ways to meet that 2025 reading goal. Reading shouldn’t be stressful, but sometimes it’s fun to turn up the heat with a challenge. Just don’t talk to us the last ...

Short books can hold enormous emotional weight, capturing grief, love and fear with a precision that longer novels often miss., Books, Times Now ...

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Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes for both print and digital platforms. courtesy amazon If you find yourself with some downtime this long weekend (or just ...

Enjoyable as it is to immerse yourself in an inches-thick work of fiction, having the time — and focus — to do so is increasingly a luxury. In order to keep you turning pages in between Netflix binges ...

In 2021, Gini Alhadeff, author and translator, brought a new concept to the venerable publisher New Directions. What if, she proposed, New Directions published short books—novellas or long stories—as ...

My friend Susan belongs to a book club where the only rule is that the books have to be 200 pages or fewer. I don’t know, because I have never asked, whether that’s because her fellow readers have ...