I love that literary fiction so often resists easy categorization. I love that this “genre” is not, really, a genre at all. And I especially love that, as literary fiction strains against conventions, ...

More than 50 years before ChatGPT could tell you what to cook for dinner, a 1968 science fiction film was shaping how we think about machines that talk to us. In 2001: A Space Odyssey, a Jupiter-bound ...

These novels usher readers into fascinating, long-ago worlds. Credit...Caroline Gamon Supported by By Alida Becker Alida Becker was an editor at the Book Review for 30 years. She was the first winner ...

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Join Little Blue Truck as he delivers Valentine’s Day cards to all his farm animal friends. But as Blue beeps along, he starts to wonder: will he get any cards of his own? With brightly colored foil ...

Readers are always looking for new books and, don't you know, NPR's Books We Love has tons of suggestions! We hear staff picks for great novels to check out from 2025. Readers are always looking for ...

An annual pop culture event in Carlisle has announced a diverse lineup of guests from film, television, and comic books.

Non-fiction sales have decreased by 8.4 per cent in the last 12 months, nearly double the decline in paperback fiction sales in the same period. It’s easy to blame such a collapse on the distractions ...

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