Literacy is, by most accounts, a positive thing. It just depends on what people use it for. Banning books has been a popular solution to the problem of “reading the wrong thing” since at least the ...

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Jimmy is a writer and editor who publishes a weekly newsletter. You can find him on Twitter. Will e-books put libraries out of business? In all likelihood, the answer is a firm no. Readers of e-books ...

Earlier this week, Hillary Clinton released "What Happened," her new book chronicling her defeat to Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. Clinton holds little back in describing how she lost ...

Sometimes literary popularity is subjective. A person could live and work in, say, New York City, see commuters constantly reading the latest from Tao Lin, and assume that it has taken the book-buying ...

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Comic books haven’t always been the bellwether, blockbuster behemoths of the silver screen that they are today. Back when comics were books, not brands, they were the ugly stepchildren of consumable ...

Why do we find infographics so compelling? To answer that, let’s look to the past. Ask an expert on effective data visualizations to name the best infographics of all time, and odds are good she’ll ...