From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

I was recently walking down the street in Soho when an object fell from on high, striking my friend on the arm. Startled, we looked up: nothing. And then down: a copy of Patrick Suskind's Perfume. We ...

Pick up a book, read it and pass it on. It's as easy as that! Get involved with BookCrossing on the BBC Bus and see your book travel round the county or even the world. It's a simple enough idea. Pass ...

If you're looking for a novel way to keep your books out of landfills, release them into the wild with a tracking number from BookCrossing.com to see how far and wide they roam. After signing up for ...

In Paris, they call September la rentrée – the return. Citizens reclaim their city after fleeing the August heat. It's as though everyone is blinking awake, refreshed from an afternoon nap. Last ...

On a recent week night, Craig Lira left his job in the medical center, stopped at the Yale Street Coffee House in the Heights, sipped some green tea and left two books, William Golding's Lord of the ...

Just the mention of free books is enough to set the pulse of any book lover racing, so a scheme set up by Alfie Boyd and Claire Wilson to offer an alternative to the free newspapers handed out at ...

The global phenomenon that is BookCrossing is "the act of releasing books into the wild and then following their journeys and… The global phenomenon that is BookCrossing is "the act of releasing books ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

When we first visited BookCrossing.com two years ago, the fledgling online community had 3,400 registered members and a driving force, Ron Hornbaker, who saw the site as a pleasant diversion that ...

Sonja Milbourn will never forget the day she walked in to her neighborhood pizza joint, only to see a waitress charging back at her. “She chased me down because she wanted to thank me for the book I ...