Here is a roll call of some noteworthy figures who died in 2024 (cause of death cited for younger people, if available): ...

Barnes and Noble opened nearly 60 stores around the country and plans for 60 more to open in 2025. It’s the latest twist in a ...

In a new segment on “PBS News Hour” (above), James Daunt said the once-mighty Barnes & Noble has come “back from the brink” ...

By Emily Eakin His new book, “Aflame,” tells of his decades visiting a silent Benedictine retreat. “You learn to love the world only by looking at it closely,” he wrote. Here are the year ...

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.

In Kwame Alexander’s new verse novel and Karen L. Swanson’s nonfiction picture book, Black girls pursue their dreams of playing big-league baseball. As spooky season approaches, the master of ...

What It’s About: Writer and artist Epum blends memoir, criticism and poetry to tell ... the book won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize.

Welcome to the Year in Reading, 2025. But as we’re still in that odd antechamber of in-between time when year-end book lists bump up against year-ahead ones, this is a good moment to talk about ...