Justin McDaniel has developed a cult following for getting his students to read — as long as they follow his rules.

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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 — ...

Our staff writes about the best books that they read over the course of the year. Our staff writes about the best books that they read over the course of the year. These days when you want to engage ...

Tommy Egan (Joseph Sikora) still has tricks up his sleeve. As his romantic relationship with Mireya (Carmela Zumbado) strengthens, Egan's personal and business lives have become more intertwined.

Tracy K. Smith, a former U.S. poet laureate, makes the case in a new book of criticism. By David Kirby David Kirby teaches at Florida State University. His latest book is “The Winter Dance Party, ...

A gorgeous Pokémon book that dives into the fictional ecology of pocket monsters is getting a release outside of Japan in 2026. The Pokémon Company announced this week that Pokécology: An Illustrated ...

If you're several chapters into a novel and forgot who a character was, Amazon is hoping its new Kindle feature will jog your memory without ever having to put the e-reader down. This feature, called ...

Howard A. Husock’s “The Projects” (NYU, 240 pages, $29.95), a history of public housing in America, is largely a story of failure. When Franklin Roosevelt signed the law creating the Federal Housing ...

In the first episode of Taylor Sheridan’s hit TV series Landman, lead character Tommy Norris, played by Billy Bob Thornton, is held prisoner by the Mexican cartel and a massive oil tanker and airplane ...

The Detroit Free Press has delivered. To celebrate the Detroit Tigers' quasquicentennial − that's 125 seasons of baseball from 1901-2025 − the Free Press composed a 208-page hardcover, coffee-table ...

The year 2025 hasn’t started out great. We’ve seen foreign wars, climate change, racist rhetoric, and political polarization escalate over the last several months, making many of us angry, burned out, ...