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What do literary types have queued up on their nightstands and ready to read before lights-out? We asked a couple of them, and here’s what they said.
Start tweeting your genre love!
In honor of Children’s Book Week, we asked Lyn Ingersoll, family librarian at Children’s National Health System, to list some of her favorite kids’ books. Here’s what she said.
Giving the Western canon the gangsta touch it's always needed.
Several authors appearing at the Gaithersburg Book Festival have also appeared in the Independent.
There was plenty of clicking and scrolling on our site last month, but readers showed these five pieces the most love overall.
An appreciation of Anthony Doerr's incandescent storytelling.
A compendium of reviews and other articles from our first three years.
