Books rise to the level of enduring art, I believe, when their writers take something ordinary and reintroduce it in a way that radically transforms it. The right work can make a subject that’s never ...

Juana Summers talks with NPR Music's Ann Powers about why Charli XCX's music for the Wuthering Heights film represents a bigger, musical trend in romance reading.

Novels by Daniel Kehlmann, Olga Ravn and Gabriela Cabezón Cámara are among the 13 titles nominated for the renowned award for fiction translated into English.

SAN FRANCISCO -- No Spanish? No problem. In a conversation with Apple Music Radio hosts Ebro Darden and Zane Lowe days ahead of his Super Bowl LX halftime performance Sunday, Grammy-winning musician ...

Vernice and Annie might have grown up together in Louisiana, but in this well crafted and absorbing new novel from the author of An American Marriage, the lives of the two women diverge greatly when ...

Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials is a 2026 Netflix miniseries directed by Chris Sweeney, starring Mia McKenna-Bruce and Martin Freeman. The plot centers on Lady Bundle Brent investigating a mysterious ...

If kids don’t learn to love books from their parents when they’re small, they’re less likely to grow up to be dedicated readers. Why is that a problem? And what specifically should parents do to make ...

This month, pile your nightstand with a new look at the Windsors, a feminist retelling of Moby Dick, and new novels from Karl Ove Knausgaard, George Saunders, and Paula McLain, among others. Here are ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Guo, whose 2017 memoir “Nine Continents” detailed her difficult road to personal and artistic freedom, pours that ...

There's nothing like than cozying up with a book in holiday pajamas, the glow of a Christmas tree and crackle of an roaring fire creating the perfect mood. To make the most of this peak reading ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Thankfully, we can still turn to our bookshelves — and podcasts — to ground us. We tapped science doyenne Alie ...

With the nation's big 2-5-0 coming up next year, NPR staff and critics recommended a lot of U.S.-focused titles for Books We Love, our annual year-end reading guide. Below you'll find 10 favorites — ...