By Linda Holmes Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. The winner of this year’s National Book Award in fiction has ...

In Kwame Alexander’s new verse novel and Karen L. Swanson’s nonfiction picture book, Black girls pursue their dreams of playing big-league baseball. As spooky season approaches, the master of ...

Food festivals are a fantastic way to taste local cuisine and support local chefs. Here are 20 of the best in the US you ...

November 25, 2024 • Books We Love returns with 350+ new titles handpicked by NPR staff and trusted critics. Find 12 years of recommendations all in one place — that's nearly 4,000 great reads.

The Detroit Auto Show is back to its January time slot and plenty of greater downtown Detroit area restaurants are ready to ...

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

On 7 and 8 January 2025, a new television miniseries entitled “Leopardi – The poet of the infinite“, dedicated to ...

Despite a bevy of communication tools at our fingertips, people are lonely-a vestige of the pandemic, perhaps. As a result, ...

It’s a sequel of sorts to her 1939 book “Moses, Man of the Mountain” and focuses on the Judean king Herod the Great. In the New Testament, he’s portrayed as a slaughterer of innocents ...

Somehow I missed that Patrick Radden Keefe’s excellent book on The Troubles, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, has been turned into a 9-part TV series (now available ...

The Daily Mail Books department chooses their favourite fiction of the century. The heartbreaking and insightful memoir from Elvis's only Child, Lisa Marie, written with her daughter, Riley Keough.

Whatever the reason and whenever your original non-planned dinner plans fail, we’ve rounded up a list of the five best ...