Bookstores

As Haile and Shirikiana Aina Gerima have come to learn, operating a bookstore on what’s now one of the District’s fastest-growing corridors comes at a cost.

When a group of self-avowed white nationalists interrupted an author chat Saturday at bookstore Politics and Prose with a megaphone and chants of “This land is our land,” workers were surprised — but not unprepared.

A small group of white nationalists marched into a sacred place in Washington over the weekend.

A group of white nationalists interrupted a book talk at Politics and Prose on Saturday with a megaphone and chants of “this land is our land.”

A small group of white nationalists interrupted a book talk Saturday at D.C.’s popular Politics and Prose bookstore during an event for the Antiracist Book Festival.

A group of protesters describing themselves as nationalists interrupted an author's book talk with chants of "This land is our land" at the popular Politics and Prose bookstore in Northwest Washington on Saturday.

A handful of self-proclaimed white nationalists interrupted an appearance by an author at the Politics and Prose bookstore in Northwest Washington on Saturday afternoon, chanted “This land is our land” and then exited to a chorus of loud…

Bookworms, it’s your time to shine. Saturday, April 27, is Independent Bookstore Day, an annual national event that celebrates bookstores as community centers and drivers of local economies.

Matt Wixon, owner and founder of Bookstore Movers and partial owner of Capitol Hill Books, died on March 22, two years after he was diagnosed with colon cancer. He was 41 years old.

For decades, experts have been predicting the death of small, independent bookstores. In the 1990s, the villains were mega-stores, like Barnes & Noble and Borders. The new millennium saw the rise of online bookselling, which offers far…

The godfather of Upshur Street is stepping away from the eponymous bookstore, which will remain open with a new name and owner.

Upshur Street Books, which opened in November 2014, is transitioning to a new owner and a new bookstore concept. Hannah Oliver Depp, who has been working as the managing partner of Upshur Street Books, is taking full ownership of the store…

When he opened his used-book shop 37 years ago in Washington’s Adams Morgan neighborhood, Jacques Morgan vowed to remain in business forever, a promise he kept until dying of cancer in 2012.

On a recent afternoon, Derrick Young set up a microphone, unfolded some tables and put the finishing touches on an open space near MahoganyBooks, an African American bookstore he opened with his wife, Ramunda, in the District’s Ward 8 last…

One of Capitol Hill’s most-beloved used bookstores is shuttering after 17 years consigning rare books, giving out dog treats to neighborhood pups, and serving afternoon tea for a loyal band of local customers. Riverby Books on East Capitol…