I tried to escape London for Sri Lanka to write a book — it didn't all go to plan - When Sydney Lima took herself off to write in the South Asian island, she wanted to escape Londoners. Not so simple, ...

Professor Priyanka Jacob of the English department published her book, “The Victorian Novel on File: Secrets, Hoards, and Information Storage” Oct. 8. As Jacob goes through the tenure process, the ...

Jane Austen is a lifestyle!” a young woman wearing a Pemberley slogan sweater tells me over Zoom, her passion palpable ...

An announcement from Simon & Schuster’s publisher left the literary community wondering whether blurbs, the little snippets of praise on a book jacket, are all they’re cracked up to be.

Lose yourself in the best space books out there as we round up the pick of the out-of-this-world reading material across an array of categories. We've rounded up the best space books currently ...

John Warner argues for the fundamental irrelevance of LLMs to the parts of the heart and mind that we unlock through the ...

Quick: What’s the most checked-out book in the history of the New York Public Library system? Give up? The answer is “The Snowy Day,” a 1962 children’s picture book by Ezra Jack Keats about a young ...

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.

Like other movies by Portuguese director Miguel Gomes, the award-winning Grand Tour is easy to watch but hard to categorise.

Salman Rushdie was about to deliver a lecture before a live audience in western New York when a man ran toward him and ...

Reading Indigenous children’s literature has taught my family about struggle, solidarity and the hard work of growing up.

When the multitalented English designer Ben Pentreath was in his teens, his career advisor sat him down and told him it was a ...