Barbara Basbanes Richter

The American Library Association (ALA) held its midwinter meeting in Boston last weekend.
During this season of giving, some charities and organizations provide much-needed food and clothing, while others nourish the soul through gifts of books.
On Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal's opinion page included a piece by St. John's College president Christopher B.
Emily Dickinson would have been 185 on December 10, and institutions across America have been marking the occasion with various public programs and, of course, poetry readings.
Soup fosters a good story, and was an integral narrative element for Pulitzer-Prize winning writer
Fifty-one years after the posthumous publication of Ernest Hemingway's ode to
Yesterday, author Chris Van Allsburg pulled into the Great Hall in
In search of something epic at the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair?