Word nerds pick their word of the year, the school librarian crisis in New York City, and more of today's bookish news stories.

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In romance novels, I just love the friends to lovers trope—the tension! The magic of their friendship! In the new movie People We Meet on Vacation , based on the Emily Henry novel of the same name, actors Emily Bader

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At least eight college and university libraries received bomb threats this week, mirroring the swatting other similar institutions faced in October.

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From ride-hailing to door-to-door delivery apps, labor platforms have created a shining new way for millions across the globe to make a living, offering flexibility, autonomy, and low-entry barriers. These forms of gig work have experienced rapid growth while raising questions around worker protections, job security, loneliness, and the role of technology.  Gig work can be […] The post 7 Novels That Grapple With the Gig Economy appeared first on Electric Literature .

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“Go West, young man!”—a phrase that looms large in the United States’s history of westward expansion. It’s a history dominated by the displacement of Indigenous peoples, the exploitation and destruction of land, and a drive to claim more, more, always more: more resources, more gold, and more land, but also more control of the stories […] The post A Mother-Daughter Novel That Transforms the Western appeared first on Electric Literature .

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Reimagine Shahrazad, wrestle with grief in a way only a poet could, and read a Black Queer account of US History.

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“There were other loves in Alexander’s life, but none who meant so much to him as Hephaestion.” On Alexander the Great and Hellenistic homophobia. | Lit Hub History Megan Milks follows their fascination with cows (and milk) to an animal

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Wrap up 2025 and build your 2026 TBR with these lists collecting the best queer books of last year and the most anticipated of this year.

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Here are eight of the best TV and movie adaptations of romance books. Can you guess which one takes the #1 spot?

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These excellent sci-fi and fantasy short stories are available to read for free online, and they're the perfect antidote to doomscrolling.

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There's been a lot of library news in the last few months. Here are a few eyebrow-raising stories you might have missed.

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Place your preorders and library holds now on three of the most exciting young adult novels of 2026, all coming out in February!

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Our problems are too vast, our distance from them too great. How do we navigate our derangement of scale?

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There's a 17th-century Black queer pirate, forbidden magic, funky little speculative short stories, a South African freedom fighter's unravelling, and more.

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“Such men [who have sex with men] are sick because of nurture.” Aristotle, Nicomachaean Ethics * Plato died in 348 BCE, a decade before the Battle of Chaeronea (338 BCE) when Athens and her allies were soundly defeated by Philip

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I entered middle school in 1964 at the age of twelve. My school, the Number Four Middle School, was the best in Chengdu. It had been founded in 141 BC and was the oldest government-funded school in China. Housed in

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