As you finish up your manuscript, the next step is often shopping it around to potential publishers. While this can be a ...

Memoirs by Sylvester Stallone and the founder of Barstool Sports; essays from celebrated novelists Jesmyn Ward and Jayne Anne ...

“This is a gorgeous and original meditation on Blackness through the lens of another color: blue. The National Book Award-winning author Imani Perry’s Black in Blues is a slim but profound volume of ...

The librarian of the John Tetso Memorial Library in Fort Simpson, N.W.T., was surprised by the donation of 60-year-old ...

Royal Mail has today released an updated list of postcodes experiencing significant delivery disruptions. The announcement on December 22 follows a wave of frustrated customers taking to social media ...

Sales of non-fiction books have tumbled by 8.4% by volume – nearly double the dip seen in fiction paperback sales – between last summer and this. Overall, the total value of sales in the sector ...

It is high time Virginia changed its election laws to eliminate the requirement that School Board elections be "non-partisan." This requirement is truly one of the biggest jokes in election law. Truth ...

It was the best-of times (you know, that period in December when we do the best-of lists). But it could feel like the worst of times: There’s so much to read before the year finishes! Well, there’s ...

This is nearly crunch time for Kriss Kringle, so you can imagine there are a lot of things he needs help with, especially answering the letters he receives from boys and girls from all over the world.

Last week, Larry Cohen published a highly-partisan, insulting, condescending letter to the editor criticizing Mercury columnist Jerry Shenk for his piece entitled, “The Seditious Six.” Mr. Shenk ...

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