We should talk more about books. Books should more frequently show up as the touchstones of our conversations. Books should be the foundations in which we build…

A few years back, I noticed what looked like a potentially interesting article on the table of contents page of an open-access scholarly journal. I attempted to…

The Times’s staff critics give their choices of the best fiction and nonfiction works of the year. Credit... Tony Cenicola/The New York Times In the literary…

College bookstores have joined the growing list of opponents to the planned merger of two major academic publishers: Cengage and McGraw-Hill Education. The…

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All too often I hear a couple of falsehoods slung around carelessly. Nobody reads scholarly books because they’re self-indulgent and impenetrable, used only for…

If you are in the humanities or social sciences, you may regard a monograph or book, especially your first one, as a milestone in your career. Let’s assume that…

Continue reading the main story The novelist Lee Child at the Vedauwoo Recreation Area outside Laramie, Wyo., recently. Child, who was born in England, bought a…

Lower-tier liberal-arts colleges, teaching-oriented universities, and community colleges — where the vast majority of academic jobs are found — have long…

Continue reading the main story Books Territory Over the last 15 years, as cruise-ship hoards and souvenir schlock have overrun the village of Oia on…

A meeting of the board of directors at Faber, March 1944. From left to right TS Eliot, Morley Kennedy, Geoffrey Faber, WJ Crawley, Miss CB Sheldon and Richard…

Each year of my three years of graduate study in creative writing I wrote approximately 100,000 words of original fiction, a total of over 300,000 words. None…

When Laura Baldwin arrived at O'Reilly Media in 2001 as Chief Financial Officer, she was well equipped for the job. She previously held the same position at…

Credit Nadav Kander for The New York Times Skip to contentSkip to site index Feature As newspapers and magazines flounder, The London Review of Books has…

But the reaction to the panel highlighted the often contentious relationship between advocates for open-education resources and commercial publishers, as…

Like many academics, William Cunningham, professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, shares his own articles -- published and soon-to-be -- on his…

The novelist, essayist and editor Christopher Beha was named the next editor of Harper’s Magazine on Monday. Credit Alexandra Beha Harper’s Magazine has a new…

MIT Press published its first open-access book in 1995, but leaders of the university press are still trying to figure out the best way to make more scholarly…