In “True West,” older brother Lee is the epitome of toxic masculinity — a hard-drinking, working-class, rootless loner who ...

Sometimes, being an adult just means being a larger version of the tiny little monsters we were when we were children. In ...

Mikey Please has been named overall winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2025 for his funny and immersive picture book The Café at the Edge of the Woods (HarperCollins Children’s ...

The eclectic, prolific author wrote more than 90 novels — primarily fantasy and science fiction, but also horror, erotica, mysteries and historical fiction. If you’ve never read her work, here ...

In an era when publishers market every second title as ideal book-club fodder ... She’s often slyly funny and occasionally hilarious, as in the tragicomic denouement to White Women LOL, where ...

It’s a good month for criticism in the literary world, with new books in April exploring everything from early-’00s feminism to modern TV and video games. On the fiction side, there’s a new ...

Four historical books about the Tudor court offer insight into what really happened. In “The Stained Glass Window,” David Levering Lewis delves into his ancestry to create a fuller picture of ...

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.

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Jeremy Workman’s documentary looks back at a project that may sound like a joke but had serious underpinnings. By Alissa Wilkinson Jason Statham plays a construction worker who’s as deft at ...

Grab one of these family books the next time your kids are looking for great new characters to meet. For more great reads, check out our Coming-of-Age Books and Funny Books for Kids.

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