In the fall of 2019, I found myself wandering around Times Square in search of a billboard featuring National Book Award-winner Ta-Nehisi Coates’s debut novel, The Water Dancer. “I’m not sure what ...
Brianna Goodman, Book of the Month’s editorial director, is perched on a bar stool at the company’s offices in Manhattan. Six rows of chairs have been set up for a live audience (OK, mostly Book of ...
Nonfiction and Y.A. are hurting, but genre fiction and the Good Book are booming. Here’s how book sales looked in 2025. By Elizabeth A. Harris and Alexandra Alter This year brought more blockbuster ...
A hundred years ago, it wasn’t easy being a reader. Books were expensive and libraries weren’t common, so it was hard to get your hands on your next read. In 1926, a magazine editor, professor, and ...
Keila Shaheen’s “The Shadow Work Journal” shows how radically book sales and marketing have been changed by TikTok. By Alexandra Alter Last summer, a book changed Kohn Glay’s life. A TikTok ad had ...
I first heard about “Yesteryear,” this summer’s blockbuster novel about a trad-wife influencer who wakes up in a nightmarish alternate reality, long before it had even been published. In 2024, the ...