In the digital age, how much longer can Spain's street kiosks survive?

For generations, the day in Spain has begun with picking up the paper from the newspaper kiosk and then reading it over breakfast in a bar. These two urban institutions – the kiosk and the bar – have been the twin pillars of any barrio, or neighbourhood.

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Before ‘Game of Thrones’ Returns, Let’s Revisit Season 1

Watching is The New York Times’s TV and film recommendation newsletter and website. You may have heard that “Game of Thrones” is returning to HBO on July 16. To prepare for Season 7, we’re reviewing and reassessing the first six seasons of the show, with the benefit of hindsight.

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How 'The Dark Tower' and 'It' Fit into Stephen King's Multiverse

Two movies and one TV show based on Stephen King novels will premiere in 2017: The Dark Tower, starring Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey, Spike’s The Mist and It, starring a ragtag group of child actors, including Finn Wolfhard (Stranger Things).

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32 Books for American Gods Fans

Sometimes they walk among us. Sometimes they empower us. They try to trick us, or don’t care for us, or don’t even notice we’re there. Whatever their agendas, the gods of fantasy literature rarely make characters’ lives any easier.

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History of Thrones: Valyrian Steel and the Priceless Swords Forged in Magic

Prior to season six of Game of Thrones we examined important historical events from the complex and controversial history of Westeros—anything that might tell us something about the story going forward.

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The Literary Battle for Nat Turner’s Legacy

In 1967, when William Styron’s novel The Confessions of Nat Turner was published, it briefly looked as if a white southern liberal might have found an ideal story to tell a country torn by racial strife. Styron’s subject was a little-known historical event: America’s bloodiest slave revolt.

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Here's 12 Easter Eggs From The Expanse You Might Have Missed The First Time Around

Syfy’s space opera The Expanse is getting geared up for its second season, and later this week, the series comes out on Blu-ray and DVD, which means that we can binge on the show all over again. When you watch it again, keep your eyes peeled for a whole bunch of easter eggs.

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Harper Lee, Author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ Dies at 89

Harper Lee, whose first novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” about racial injustice in a small Alabama town, sold more than 40 million copies and became one of the most beloved and most taught works of fiction ever written by an American, died on Friday in Monroeville, Ala., where she lived.

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In the age of Amazon, used bookstores are making an unlikely comeback

Early next month, Pablo Sierra is opening a used bookstore in Northwest Washington — an unlikely bet in the digital age made even more inconceivable, given that his only experience with books is reading them. Or maybe not.

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Our Year of Living Airbnb

Alistair Cooke once described New York as “the biggest collection of villages in the world,” and I dreamed of living in them all.

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Booze Your Way Through the Holidays Hemingway Style

This is a guest post from Philip Greene. He is one of the founders of the Museum of the American Cocktail (New Orleans), and is the author of the newly released book To Have And Have Another – A Hemingway Cocktail Companion, a drinker’s guide to the life and works of Ernest Hemingway.

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Three ways to organize a novel in Evernote

As sponsors of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), we’ve been talking with writers—from novelists to bloggers—about the ways they use Evernote. One thing we discovered right away is that every writer has a unique approach to organization. This is one area where Evernote excels.

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What to Know for 'Game of Thrones' Season Five Premiere

Watching Game of Thrones is a lot like ruling the Seven Kingdoms: No one said it would be easy. After all, this is a series that has more dead main characters than most TV shows have living ones.



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Spain finds Don Quixote writer Cervantes' tomb in Madrid

Forensic scientists say they have found the tomb of Spain's much-loved giant of literature, Miguel de Cervantes, nearly 400 years after his death. They believe they have found the bones of Cervantes, his wife and others recorded as buried with him in Madrid's Convent of the Barefoot Trinitarians.



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From Victoria Schwab to Justina Robson: The best female science fiction and fantasy writers you should read now

Victoria Schwab, an American living in Edinburgh, has had remarkable success in both the young adult and adult fields of fantasy writing, and her latest, A Darker Shade of Magic (Titan Books, £7.99), falls into the latter camp, which she writes as V E Schwab.



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Kansas GOP Senator Mary Pilcher-Cook Wants To Criminalize “Harmful” Books

A Republican senator in Kansas, Mary Pilcher-Cook, has introduced a bill to the state house to amend the current public morals standard.



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Lost Sherlock Holmes story found in Scotland; read it now

Walter Elliot found Sherlock Holmes: Discovering the Border Burghs and, by deduction, the Brig Bazaar in his attic, according to The Telegraph. Elliot was given the 48-page pamphlet half a century ago by a friend, but forgot all about it existence until recently.



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Running Books In Our Library

It's not the only list of running books out there, but it is our list of books that inspire us, drive us, and help keep us grounded. Every single night before bed, I read.



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The Goodreads Choice Awards Announce Their Best Books of 2014

Goodreads has announced the winners of its annual Goodreads Choice Awards! Since 2009, “the only major book award decided by readers” has called out the year’s best books in categories including Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Graphic Novels & Comics.



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PD James, queen of crime fiction, dies aged 94

The writer PD James, who charted the transformations of British life through bestselling crime fiction starring the detective Adam Dalgliesh, has died aged 94. Her publisher Faber and Faber confirmed that she had died peacefully at home in Oxford on Thursday morning.



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