Liadan Ní Chuinn's Every One Still Here is about a universal theme—complicated family relationships—in a singular setting: ...

Read all of Slate’s stories about the 25 Greatest Picture Books of the Past 25 Years. On Oct. 8, 2010, the New York Times ran a story on its front page: “Picture Books No Longer a Staple for Children.

Nonfiction and Y.A. are hurting, but genre fiction and the Good Book are booming. Here’s how book sales looked in 2025. By Elizabeth A. Harris and Alexandra Alter This year brought more blockbuster ...

Ian McEwan’s latest novel, “What We Can Know,” is many things at once: It’s a science fiction imagining of a future world devastated by climate catastrophe; it’s a literary mystery about a scholar’s ...

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 — ...

While Taylor Swift was on her "Eras Tour" and being filmed for a documentary series, she was listening to the audiobook version of Liz Moore’s The God of the Woods—and since the footage debuted, daily ...

The Amazon book sale is fairly robust and it can sometimes be hard to find what you're looking for within it. I've featured the best deals I've found so far, which leans pretty heavily toward my own ...

It has been two years since Phoenix Suns shooting guard Devin Booker's first signature Nike basketball shoe launched in extremely limited numbers at Art Basel. After dropping in every style imaginable ...

There is a disjunction at the heart of children’s literature. It is that the placing of words and brushstrokes, the arranging of every publishing deal and the selling and buying of every book, is ...

WASHINGTON — The pastor who inspired Charlie Kirk’s final book on the Sabbath opened up about how he managed to persuade the late conservative icon to practice the Christian tradition. David ...

I am an unrepentant book gifter. It is my version of the scented candle, though I give plenty of those too. But while a scent can feel impersonal, books are incredibly intimate. It’s a good way to ...

Another year, another stack of great books to read. Jeffrey Brown talked with Maureen Corrigan, book critic for NPR’s Fresh Air, and author Ann Patchett about their top picks this year. The Loneliness ...