Two Indian creatives are using stickers and posters to make literature available to everyone – and they’re being pasted in public places around the world.

Douglas Broom 14 May 2019

Inclusive Growth Framework

Economists explain why books build peace

Studies show that the construction of primary schools led to statistically significant reductions in conflict that grew larger over time.

Alessandro Saia and Dominic Rohner · VoxEU 08 May 2019

South Africa

This South African lawyer is reading while running marathons - for book donations

There’s a literacy crisis in South Africa. But this marathon reader is hoping to solve it.

Kate Whiting 07 May 2019

Book Club

Biblioburro: The amazing donkey libraries of Colombia

Literacy rates across Latin America are generally pretty high, particularly among younger generations. But it’s still common for children in remote communities to live in homes with littl...

Sean Fleming 03 May 2019

Book Club

'Don't hire people who are just like yourself' - Q&A with author Beth Comstock

Our April pick for the World Economic Forum Book Club was Beth Comstock's book, Imagine It Forward: Courage, Creativity and the Power of Change. Throughout the month, her inspirational re...

Beatrice Di Caro and Beth Comstock 02 May 2019

Book Club

From robo-wars to mindfulness: What Bill Gates is reading to understand modern technology

This year, ahead of choosing MIT Technology Review's breakthrough innovations, Gates read 10 books on tech that helped inform his choices.

Allana Akhtar · Business Insider 01 May 2019

Book Club

'Our call is to lift women up' - an excerpt from Melinda Gates' new book

The Moment of Lift – Gates' powerful call for gender equality – is this month's pick for the World Economic Forum Book Club.

Melinda Gates 30 Apr 2019

Arts and Culture

6 inspiring books for children and young readers

The types of books we read in our adolescence can shape us forever. Here are six classics to consider reading to your own children.

Mike Colagrossi · Big Think 29 Apr 2019

Book Club

These vending machines are giving out free short stories to London commuters

The UK’s first short story vending machines have popped up in London, to help people stop scrolling through social media and lose themselves in bite-sized works of fiction.

Kate Whiting 25 Apr 2019

Book Club

Franco’s invisible legacy: books across the hispanic world are still scarred by his censorship

Between 1936 and 1966, every single book published in Spain had to be submitted to a national board of censors for examination.

Jordi Cornellà-Detrell · The Conversation 25 Apr 2019

Book Club

The World Economic Forum Book Club – 12 months, 12 great books

On this #WorldBookDay, we look back over a year of inspiring authors, from Elif Shafak to Steven Pinker and Yuval Noah Harari.

Beatrice Di Caro 23 Apr 2019

Education, Gender and Work

A US judge sentenced teenage vandals to read books. This is what happened next

A prosecutor in the United States came up with a novel sentence for teenagers who sprayed racist graffiti – she made them read.

Douglas Broom 18 Apr 2019

Book Club

Hemingway centre opens in Cuba to preserve writer's work

The United States and Cuba have collaborated to open Hemingway's old house near Havana, where he wrote some of his most famous books.

Nelson Acosta · Reuters 11 Apr 2019

Fourth Industrial Revolution

Why this company wants to make reading an ebook more like a video game

Books too boring? Maybe they need badges and achievements for kids who finish their reading homework.

Dan Robitzski · Futurism 09 Apr 2019

Book Club

Scottish 'Holocaust heroine' who saved Jewish girls lauded in book

A Scottish "Holocaust heroine" and quiet champion of educating girls helped save many Jews in Hungary before dying herself in a Nazi concentration camp, according to a book out released o...

Emma Batha · Thomson Reuters Foundation trust.org 08 Apr 2019

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