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BIOGRAPHY Ellin, Abby. Duped: Double Lives, False Identities, and the Con Man I Almost Married. PublicAffairs: Perseus. Jan. 2019. 272p. ISBN 9781610398008. $27; ebk. ISBN 9781610398015. MEMOIR Journalist Ellin (Teenage [...]

The LJ Reviews editors here present our top picks for spring and summer books. Pinpointing key topics of 2018 -- politics, #MeToo, increasing diversity--as Neal Wyatt notes (p. 16), we [...]

It is difficult to know the exact percentage of vegetarians and vegans in the world, but India consistently tops the list as the country with the highest number, with an [...]

Promising fall titles, 33 strong LJ's review editors love sifting through catalogs and author websites, listening to podcasts and Internet chatter, reading blurbs, and more, searching for the big titles [...]

When the LJ Reviews editors make their spring picks, each of us starts with her wheelhouse. Bette-Lee waves the flag for romance; Wilda unfurls some fiction picks; Stephanie Klose announces [...]

WHAT TIME IS IT? It's time for the editors to pick their favorite fall books for your eager (we hope) consumption. Time for looking backward and forward to see how [...]

Renamed and reconfigured, BookExpo returned to New York this June after last year's detour to Chicago. The evolving relationship between BookExpo itself, held June 1-2 and aimed at a professional [...]

This year's list, compiled by a group of LJ's top reference reviewers and editors, spans a wide range of subject areas, from a dictionary of Shakespearean vocabulary and a journey [...]

In spite of intermittent rain, the mild temperatures of Atlanta made it a welcome destination for the 2017 American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting, held January 20--24. Still, attendance numbers [...]

From the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 to the future of American journalism after Edward Snowden, from psychological thrillers featuring unreliable narrators to a beloved romance author's final novel, the titles [...]

We nominated, debated, and discussed. Then the LJ 12 (yes, 12 of us, just like a jury) convened and voted. On a blustery October day, we got down to it, [...]

The Old blessing (or curse) 'may you live in interesting times' is timely this season, with the first woman candidate for president nominated by a major party, and the first [...]

The American Library Association (ALA) annual conference ran June 23-28 at the Orange County Convention Center and nearby venues in Orlando, FL. The mass shooting at Latin night at Orlando's [...]

An absorbing story of heroic librarians racing to save their country's cultural heritage from destruction. A fascinating account of the making of the Broadway and pop culture phenomenon that is [...]

I'm often asked how we pick our best books of the year. The short answer is that it's a marathon of reading that culminates in a day off-site when we [...]

'Downton Abbey meets The Addams Family' might be my favorite book description of an upcoming title this season. It encapsulates one of the fall/winter books recommended by U's review editors, [...]

This year's BookExpo America (bea) took place in New York's Jacob K. Javits Convention Center on Wednesday, May 27, through Friday, May 29, 2015. As usual, attendees enjoyed a feast [...]

Finding out which books my colleagues are excited about is always an epiphany; each editor is an expert on the areas she covers for LJ but also reads widely in [...]

Biss, Eula. Having and Being Had. Riverhead. Sept. 2020. 336p. ISBN 9780525537458. $26. SOC SCI Biss (No Man's Land; On Immunity), an artist-in-residence at Northwestern University, combines personal narrative with [...]

* Billis, Stacie. Winner! Winner! Chicken Dinner: 50 Winning Ways To Cook It Up! Storey. Apr. 2020. 160p. ISBN 9781635861563. $16.95. COOKING With the same candor that made her debut [...]

* Hunt, Lindsay Maitland. Help Yourself: A Guide to Gut Health for People Who Love Delicious Food. Houghton Harcourt. Apr. 2020.368p. ISBN 9780358008392. $28. COOKING Following up her best-selling cookbook [...]

I hope you're ready to drop everything and read, because this year's top ten best books are some of the most immersive and memorable we've seen in a long time. [...]

A few years back, I reconnected with an old friend from elementary school who declared my job 'very Sex and the City.' Sorry to say, we're not exactly wearing Mahnolos [...]

BookCon. What a scene! What a joy, too, to see crowds of children and adults at ReedPop's May 31 literary festival that was perhaps the most talked-about part of this [...]

* Busby, Jill Louise. Unfollow Me: Essays on Complicity. Bloomsbury. Sept. 2021. 224p. ISBN 9781635577112. $26. soc sci In this outstanding debut, based on her viral 2016 Instagram post about [...]

Blay, Zeba. Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Popular Culture. St. Martin's Griffin. Oct. 2021.272p. ISBN 9781250231567. pap. $16.99. soc sci Drawing from pop culture and personal [...]

Some 11,716 librarians, library workers, vendors, trustees, and Friends turned out to share the latest trends, updates, innovations, products, titles, and services at the American Library Association's (ALA) 2016 Midwinter [...]

Q: How do you make science writing fun? A: My favorite part about writing science is reporting science. I get to step into worlds that I would never otherwise see. [...]

Mattie Cook, Flat River Community Lib., MI Mattie is a delight! Besides being a great writer, we share a love of pop culture, and she's always eager to let me [...]

Byrne, David. American Utopia. Bloomsbury. Sept. 2020.160p. illus. by Maira Kalman. ISBN 9781635576689. $24. THEATER You may ask yourself, wasn't this the title of Talking Heads cofounder Byrne's 2018 album, [...]

Clark, Melissa. Dinner in French: My Recipes by Way of France. Clarkson Potter: Crown. Mar. 2020. 336p. ISBN 9780553448252. $37.50. COOKING Following Dinner: Changing the Game and Dinner in an [...]

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century. Vintage. Jun. 2020. 240p. ed. by Alice Wong. ISBN 9781984899422. pap. $16. SOC SCI In the powerful introduction to this collection, Wong, [...]

Alpers, Jackie. Taste of Tucson: Sonoran-Style Recipes Inspired by the Rich Culture of Southern Arizona. West Margin. Apr. 2020. 192p. ISBN 9781513262567. $34.99. COOKING More than simply creating a cookbook [...]

* Jollett, Mikel. Hollywood Park. Celadon: Macmillan. May 2020.384p. ISBN 9781250621566. $27.99. MEMOIR In this first book by writer/musician Jollett, front man of indie band Airborne Toxic Event and on-air [...]

Anna Clutterbuck-Cook, Reference Librarian, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston You may have seen Anna Clutterbuck-Cook's byline in a variety of sections: from sociology and history to reference and romance, she's a [...]

* Barrow, Cathy. Pie Squared: Irresistibly Easy Sweet & Savory Slab Pies. Grand Central. Oct. 2018.336p. photos, index. ISBN 9781538729144. $28; ebk. ISBN 9781538729168. COOKING Featuring dozens of recipes specially [...]

The article discusses the 2019 American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference held in Washington, D.C. from June 20-25, 2019. Highlights include attendance at the conference, speakers including author Nnedi Okorafor, "CBS Sunday Morning" correspondent Mo Rocca, and actor and activist George Takei; and informational session offered by ALA's Washington Office titled "173 Days of Congress."

The article offers information on the 2019 American Library Association's (ALA) annual conference on June 20-25 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C.

Randall Munroe is the creator of the popular webcomic xked (xked. com) and author of What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions and Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in [...]

How would you describe your book? I think a lot of people in this country, men in particular, have never really sat with the question 'Why am I like this?' [...]

LJ editors' fall forecast: stormy, with political action, injustices fought, identities formed and reformed, alliances made and broken, and folks finally having their say. Some patches of sunshine--romance, cookbooks, invisible [...]

If you have read the pages of LJ throughout the years, you've most likely spotted the byline of longtime reviewer Henry 'Harry' T. Armistead. As one of our resident experts [...]

In late October, nine LJ editors gathered at New York's gothic Jefferson Market Library to select this year's top ten best books. Our nominee list consisted of 23 carefully selected [...]

Levinson, David Samuel. Tell Me How This Ends Well. Hogarth: Crown. Apr. 2017. 416p. ISBN 9780451496881. $27; ebk. ISBN 9780451496904. F Set in Los Angeles in 2022, the latest from [...]

The article offers information on the Midwinter Meeting of the American Library Association (ALA) which will take place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on January 24 to 28, 2019.

Rebekah Kati, Institutional Repository Librarian, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill LibrariesI first worked with Rebekah Kati when we were both volunteering for INALJ (formerly I Need a Library [...]

BookExpo 2018 again hosted a range of programming of interest to librarians. Celebrating its tenth anniversary, LJ's popular Librarian Shout 'n Share panel took center stage on the final day [...]

COOPER, Brittney. Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower. 288p. St. Martin's. Feb. 2018. Tr $25.99. ISBN 9781250112576. In her debut, Cooper, cofounder of the Crunk Feminist Collective, reflects [...]