Is BookTok to blame?

At the height of his modeling career in the ’80s, Fabio Lanzoni, better known simply as Fabio, says he was shooting up to 10 romance book covers a day. With his long, blonde hair flowing, his shirt ...

The idiom “don’t judge a book by its cover” doesn’t hold up for a Somerville artist who hopes readers will critique each and every exterior. “ I fully support judging a book by its cover,” said ...

This week BookTok creators reflected on the rise of dark romance on the platform, which refers to novels with taboo and illegal themes. On BookTok, Busayo and Emily (@emilymiahreads; 86,300 followers) ...

Picture the cover of a romance novel. Five years ago, I’d have bet my heaving bosom that you’d automatically come up with something involving a bare-chested Fabio type clutching a swooning damsel, her ...

Ah, the much-maligned romance novel: The pretzel-like plot featuring a lovelorn protagonist falling madly for the hunkiest of hunks until the two eventually foray into a world of soft sensual delights ...

Jason Baca got discovered on the set of 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' and spent decades flexing on the books he also loves to read Lizz Schumer is the senior books editor at PEOPLE. She has been ...

Despite a steady rise in the popularity of e-books and a surge in ownership of electronic readers and tablets, real dead-tree paper books are not about the exit the scene any time soon. And while most ...