New Ben Lerner, George Saunders gets metaphysical, and Tayari Jones makes her big post–American Marriage return.

It's a simple question without an easy answer: What makes a best book of the year? Is it a novel begging to become a contemporary classic or a retelling of the classics themselves? Is it a book that ...

August continues July’s trend of being rich in genre fiction, with new novels from Hugo Award winner T. Kingfisher and Hugo Award nominee Chuck Tingle. Jason Mott, who won the National Book Award in ...

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.

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Dr. Sayantani DasGupta is a pediatrician and a founder and faculty member of the Master's Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University. She is a founding member of Authors Against Book Bans, ...

I recognize I usually start with some kind of funny story or joke, but this is definitely not one. It's a simple question: Has any policy ever looked more politically dunderheaded in immediate ...

The hottest new action writer in Hollywood is no dude, it’s T.J. Newman taking center stage in a genre dominated by dudes. And this is her very first script, an adaptation of her 2021 novel, “Falling, ...