Leyla Erkan Editor of Harlequin. Below, she discusses the evolution of queer romance in publishing and its growing influence beyond the genre. We are living through incredible times where romance is more popular than ever. Rachel Reed’s heated rivalry has taken the world by storm, ushering in enthusiasm for all types of stories depicting queer
Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines on politics, culture, media, and other topics. Today, we’ve got stories about who owns the public library, tips and insights for overcoming reading decline, and much more. What are public libraries for anyway? Earlier this year, I wrote about how public libraries were redefining
Carlo Ginzburg, an Italian scholar famous for his approach to history that focused on the group of humanity that existed outside the political and social elites of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, died on Wednesday in Bologna. He was 87 years old. His death was announced by the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, where he
One day in the early 1940s, David Plowden picked up his Kodak Brownie box camera and headed with his mother to the train depot near his family’s farm in Vermont. He was 11 years old and so fascinated by steam engines that he often traveled on the railway tracks and befriended some of the conductors
Bill Grant, the bodybuilding icon known to millions as the “Man of Steel”, has died at the age of 79, with tributes pouring in to remember the legend. Achieving success during the golden age of bodybuilding, Grant’s ambition to build muscle started at age 9He was taken to training in his bedroom and a friend’s