by Lauren Last month, ABC hosted the first of our planned Writer’s Nights, where writers, illustrators, editors, publishers, booksellers, and readers come together to share and celebrate stories, whether their own or somebody else’s they’re helping put out into the world. Our talent wall was full with snippets of novels, short [...]
by Lauren I thought I had a milestone birthday this year, but Amsterdam is turning 750 years old! From a small fishing village in 1275 to the bustling multi-cultural metropolis it is today, Amsterdam will be celebrating its rich history and looking to the future starting October 27, when the city [...]
by Lauren October 14 is Columbus Day in the US, the holiday marking the date that the explorer/colonizer first stepped foot on what would later become the US, Central and South America. (He actually landed in the Bahamas on October 12, 1492, but a bank holiday is a bank holiday.) In [...]
by Lauren Book banning in the US continued its stratospheric rise in 2023, with the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) reporting that challenges of unique titles surged 65% in 2023 compared to 2022—the highest level ever documented by [...]
by Lauren At ABC, we love anything that gets people reading, including introducing the next generation of booklovers to the classics. And as a mother of young adults, I can attest it’s not always easy. This is where BookTok comes in. It is a dedicated community of readers and reviewers whose [...]
by Lauren If you’ve been to our Amsterdam store recently, you may have noticed our magazine section has been reduced by half. Things have been less dramatic in The Hague, but the number of magazines on offer there has also been steadily decreasing. Many magazines still being printed are coming out [...]
by Lauren The 2024 winners of the prestigious Pulitzer Prizes were announced earlier this week at New York’s Columbia University. Read on to see what they are and what the jurists had to say about them. Fiction Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips “A beautifully rendered [...]
by Lauren Always looking for good book recs, we at ABC love spring’s literary award season. Last week, the International Booker Prize 2024 shortlist was announced in recognition of “the best works of literature originally written in languages other than English which have been translated and published in the UK or [...]
by Lauren It’s February, which means it’s Black History Month in the United States and Canada, a celebration and recognition of Black culture and history and its enduring legacy in lands far removed from the African continent. At ABC, we’ve put together a list of reading recommendations for Black History Month [...]
by Lauren Norwegian author, poet and playwright Jon Fosse has won this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature for what the Swedish Academy called his "innovative plays and prose which gives voice to the unsayable." The 64-year-old's major works, written in the Nynorsk variation of Norwegian, include the Septology [...]
