Books

Eight hours and 15 minutes. That’s how long it takes to read Maya Angelou's “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” out loud. That’s how long a small act of rebellion takes.

It’s a good time to start getting out of the house and enjoying all Baltimore County has to offer outdoors.

The White Marsh branch of the Baltimore County Public Library will close after business hours March 29 for renovations to its meeting room and bathrooms.

Sen. Chuck Schumer is postponing an event in Baltimore for his upcoming book due to “security reasons,” according to an email from Enoch Pratt Free Library.

Maryland author Mark Swartz's "The Music Never Died" imagines a world where some of music's greatest artists live on in intriguing ways.

Author and researcher Cat Bohannon will be in Baltimore to discuss “Eve,” her nonfiction book on the intricate history of the importance of the female body in human evolution.

Our Kids Read opened last month in the Eastpoint Mall.

Local Black bookstore Urban Reads has been habitually racially harassed, but Baltimore showed up for the shop in many ways.

A writer and communications expert created an annual literary event to celebrate Black history and the way it resonates in our lives.

Baltimore author and Johns Hopkins associate professor Eric Puchner’s new novel, “Dream State,” is the latest selection for Oprah’s Book Club.

Colette Shade is the author of the new book “Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything.”

Hunt Valley’s Diamond Comic Distributors had a monopoly in the industry, yet slip-ups during the pandemic and delayed deliveries pushed it into bankruptcy last week.

Local author Amy L. Bernstein wants you to feed your starving creative soul by wrangling your doubt monster.

Here is 2024 in review, according to me. I can’t send you all cookies, so you’ll have to make do with numbers.

I wanted to know what folks’ favorite read of the year was. Check out answers from the mayor, notable authors in town, a reality TV star and more.

Midnight Madness is back with three nights of late shopping in downtown Annapolis this month. It’s one of seven great things to do in the coming week.

Baltimore County has rolled out a new mobile library that aims to introduce science, technology, creativity and traditional library offerings such as books to immigrant-heavy and underserved areas of Baltimore County, where libraries are scarce and hard to access.

Whether you’re a bona fide witch or just enjoy the witchy/new age aesthetic, here are the best places to shop for crystals, incense, herbs and other tools of the witch’s craft.

The Enoch Pratt Free Library saw more than 8,000 materials checked out on an average day and 1.192 million visits, according to the system’s latest annual report.

Ta-Nehisi Coates talked about Baltimore, writing, Palestine and more during an interview conducted by WYPR’s Tom Hall as part of the “Brown Lecture Series” at the Enoch Pratt Free Library.