For American intellectuals, directives about “beach books” strike every summer like seaside mosquitoes, transmitting a kind of vulgar virus from those natural enemies, the pandering, soulless, ...

Sunscreen, sunglasses, snacks and drinks are all beach essentials. However, a must-have for your day soaking up the sun and the sand is also a summer-themed book to enjoy while the waves crash around ...

Every year around this time, my friends reach out and ask, “Can you recommend any good beach reads?” They’ve come to the right place. I aspire to be the Mona Lisa Vito (Marisa Tomei’s character from ...

Plan on spending plenty of time on the beach this summer? Give yourself a reason to stay longer by bringing a good book. Maybe you want your beach read to be fast-paced and captivating. Or perhaps you ...

Nothing beats a new book on the best beach. The perfect read is one that you are constantly looking forward to picking back up. We’ll be heading out of New York City to be out east for the summer soon ...

My love for the beach and for reading go as far back as I can remember, and luckily for me, these two loves exist in harmony. Reading at the beach is one of my deepest pleasures. A beach bag without a ...

Even the figures in Katsukawa Shunchō's 1789 woodblock print only buy from independent bookstores! (image public domain via the Metropolitan Museum of Art, edit Shari Flores/Hyperallergic) Flipping ...

Once upon a time, when I was young and innocent, working as a newspaper reporter in Philadelphia and writing a novel in my spare time, I believed that what I was writing was simply a book, or a novel, ...

“The Half Moon” written by Mary Beth Keane. Malcolm Gephardt has always dreamed of owning a bar, and when his boss at the Half Moon retires, he stretches his finances to buy the place. Now, he finds ...

The Beach Boys by the Beach Boys, the only official book on the California legends, will hit shelves in 2024. The anthology will chronicle the Beach Boys' rise from a humble garage band in Hawthorne ...