By Leonard S. Marcus Here are the year’s most notable picture, chapter and middle grade books, selected by our children’s books editor. By Jennifer Krauss The protagonists of “A Day With ...

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By Brian Raftery The Books Readers Loved in 2024 A taboo-busting Brooklyn memoir, a tender Japanese novel about the beauty of connection, a book by a death doula: Editors and writers from around ...

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.

This week, Biden signed it into law. December 18, 2024 • This year, the animal kingdom was filled with triumph, loss and new discoveries. Here is a look at NPR's top animal stories of 2024.

Until 2012 when printing ended, the company’s books served as the oldest continuously ... While it still offers an online edition of its encyclopedia, as well as the Merriam-Webster dictionary ...

Dec. 20, 2024 — Despite their reputation as buzzing nuisances, flies serve a critical role as some of the Earth's most prolific pollinators -- and new research suggests they are increasingly at ...

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.

Talking to Digital Spy, Hoult – who plays Thomas Hutter – recalled a terrifying experience filming a scene with Czech ...

Ever thought that saving trees was as simple as stopping deforestation? Think again. A new study from Ecuador’s Amazon reveals a more complicated story, where the survival of trees depends on a ...

It has an exciting sibling dynamic, terrible aunts, a crush on the bad boy, and the best foreshadowing you've ever read.

From its cast of pre-fame child actors to the psychology of the scares and what was in the campfire dust, learn more about ...