Reading serious literature isn't the norm among American adults these days. But nonprofit Books@Work hopes to encourage adults to continue to read and learn…

O ne of the joys of academic life is contributing to the canon of a field and knowing that other people will read your words and, perhaps, change their…

Don Norman is a legend in UX design. Since the 1960s, he’s been on the forefront of human-computer interaction and was a pioneer in user-centered design (or…

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All Images: CBS “Threshold” is one of the most infamous Star Trek episodes ever. You know what’ we’re talking about—the one with Warp 10 and the weird evolved…

T he Modern Language Association’s annual convention is not so much a conference as a traveling city. For four days each year, more than 5,000 members of one of…

Dennis McCarthy, a self-taught Shakespeare scholar, at his home in North Hampton, N.H. Cody O'Loughlin for The New York Times For years scholars have debated…

In what amounts to faint praise for the strength of the physical book NPD reported that print book sales rose 1.9 percent in 2017, less than the 3 percent…

A nonprofit publishing platform called Flockademic launched yesterday. Its aim: to put academics in charge of scholarly publishing. The free platform, started…

Daniel Mallory, aka A.J. Finn, in his New York apartment. Nathan Bajar for The New York Times Four years ago, when former book editor Daniel Mallory purchased…

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MEETINGS WITH REMARKABLE MANUSCRIPTS Twelve Journeys Into the Medieval World By Christopher de Hamel Illustrated. 632 pp. Penguin Press. $45. “Meetings With…

A s the rain pounded Houston this fall, I camped out in a conference room on the third floor of the library of an excellent liberal-arts college. I’d been…

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“Open citations now!” So concludes a new open letter to publishers from researchers who support making scholarly citations freely available, in the interest of…

A friend of mine is about to publish his first book. That is, if he can get past his discouragement. He has just received the report from his editors, and it's…

I haven’t seen anybody else write on this, exactly, but I’ve seen it repeatedly on my own campus. This is a quick attempt to see if my campus is somehow fluky,…

I nformation is more accessible than ever. If you are curious about the cast of a TV show from 1975, or lyrics to your favorite ‘80s pop song, you’ll be…