Bendon LLC ("Bendon" or "the Company"), a designer and distributor of licensed children's coloring, activity, and educational products, today announced it has acquired School Zone Publishing Company ( ...

Pedestrians walk in front of the Bangor Public Library on Harlow Street on July 18, 2024. Credit: Linda Coan O'Kresik / BDN Letters submitted by BDN readers are verified by BDN Opinion Page staff.

The Issue: Ex-First Lady Jill Biden’s hard-to-believe claims about Joe’s health in her new memoir. Former First Lady Jill Biden knew her husband was feeble long before the debate took place (“Joe ...

A collection of Harold Bloom’s letters details the working life of one of America’s most influential intellects. By Dwight Garner When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we ...

A local bookseller is taking a stand against artificial intelligence, and it’s catching on in bookstores beyond Portland. John Hart, the owner of Always Here Books on North Williams Avenue, has been ...

Katie Slocum pulled off her bookshelf a novel she had picked up at a little free library years before but never opened. Flipping through Ann Patchett’s “State of Wonder,” Slocum, 36, found a ...

In addition to 54 poems, John Keats wrote some three dozen love letters to his fiancée, Fanny Brawne. Joseph Severn painted this portrait of the poet in 1819. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons A set ...

“Imagine, the letters one has sent out into the world, the letters received back in turn, are like pieces of a magnificent puzzle … isn’t there something wonderful in that, to think that a story of ...

On Feb. 24, a bill that would create a federal book ban, H.R. 7661, was filed in Congress. If enacted, H.R. 7661 would create a de facto national book ban law, which would override Illinois’ Public ...

After back-to-back winter weather storms, school districts say they have reached out to state legislators to request the option to allocate additional remote learning days.On Saturday, leaders with ...