Shining a spotlight on everyday readers of the 21st century, Beth Driscoll explores how contemporary readers of Anglophone fiction interact with the book indust…

Digital spaces are saturated with metaphor: we have pages, sites, mice, and windows. Yet, in the world of digital textuality, these metaphors no longer function as we might expect.

Cambridge Core - History of Science and Technology - Early Modern Print Media and the Art of Observation

During the two difficult decades immediately following the 1947 Indian Independence, a new, commercially successful print culture emerged that articulated a...

Contemporary fiction has never been less contemporary. Midcentury writers tended to set their works in their own moment, but for the last several decades cri... | CUP

The Double Life of Books

Winner of the 2025 Justin G. Schiller Prize for Bibliographical Work on Children's Books from The Bibliographical Society of America By the close of...

How ordinary forms of writing—including manuals, petitions, almanacs, and magazines—shaped the way colonial subjects understood their place in empire

Publication is an act of power. It brings a piece of writing to the public and identifies its author as a person with an intellect and a voice that matters. ...

Anxieties about the fate of reading in the digital age reveal how deeply our views of the moral and intellectual benefits of reading are tied to print. These views take root in a conception of reading...

Librarians around the country are currently on a battleground, defending their right to purchase and circulate books dealing with issues of race and systemic racism. Despite this work, the library com...