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Though Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, has seen an exodus of Black residents over the past 15 years, one woman hopes to create a beacon for her community. By Dodai Stewart Photographs and Video by Nicky ...

TRAVERSE CITY, MI – A beloved Traverse City bookstore is set to close its doors amid a change in business strategy. Brilliant Books, which opened a storefront at 118 East Front Street in downtown ...

On Oct. 8, 2010, the New York Times ran a story on its front page: “Picture Books No Longer a Staple for Children.” As we interviewed children’s publishing professionals while compiling this list, ...

At The Quill & Candle Bookshop, getting lost in a good book is celebrated. The bookstore, a recent addition to Longmont’s Prospect New Town neighborhood, is a haven for every kind of reader. Books ...

Anthropic has begun rolling out a small but significant update to Claude. Starting today you can use the chatbot to create and edit Excel spreadsheets, documents, PowerPoint slide decks and PDFs. In ...

ANDREA GRABENSTEIN [email protected] Sep 11, 2025 Sep 11, 2025 0 CHESTER — Understanding books can transport us to new worlds, a local business owner is taking that one step further by bringing ...

A keen-eyed Powell’s Books customer who noticed a “wonky” graphic on one of the store’s T-shirts for sale — then posted the image to the social media platform Reddit last week — ignited an uproar ...

A southern-based book retailer has found its way north and has opened its first location in Minnesota. Books-A-Million will mark its grand opening this weekend in Bloomington with a ribbon cutting 11 ...

Computer scientist and Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton predicted artificial intelligence will spark a surge in unemployment and profits as companies replace workers with AI. But it’s not the technology ...

Saturday, September 6, is National Read a Book Day, and there's no better place to celebrate than one of the country’s top-rated independent bookstores, right here in Georgia. A cozy bookstore in the ...