Literary Arts announced the 2026 Oregon Book Awards winners in a ceremony at Portland Center Stage at the Armory April 20.

Every bookshelf has its heavy hitters. The classics everyone claims to have read, the modern bestsellers everyone actually has read. But tucked away in the dusty corners of literary history, there are ...

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Queer books are having a moment. In 2022, sales of LGBTQ+ fiction doubled those of two years prior. Increased mainstream interest in queer stories has transformed what book publishing data analyst ...

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British novelist Charles Dickens (1812-1870) sat in his study in Gads Hill near Rochester, Kent circa 1860. He wrote one of the best first lines in literature. Great opening lines to books set the ...

Visit the Rewind Book Fair, with all the charm and some of the authors fondly remembered from elementary school book fairs.

Horror books are designed to scare you silly, and these literary horror novels are also well-crafted reads — we suggest you read them with the lights on Mason Coile is a pseudonym of Andrew Pyper, the ...

“What happened to my dreams? Simply put: they changed,” reads Phil Augusta Jackson aloud to a crowd in a furniture store. Tonight’s theme is change. From a podium, the television writer reflects on ...

Book travel is on the rise, and there's plenty to discover in Southeast Asia. Here are six literary cities to bookmark in the ...