In April of 2023, when I was fresh out of a Ph.D. program in philosophy, I was hired as the nonfiction critic at the newly revived books section of the Washington Post. The shock to my system was ...

The tech platform will allow readers to move between physical and audiobooks and offer the sale of books from independent bookstores. By Caitlin Huston Business Writer About two years after the launch ...

Georgia Rose is an investigative journalist who goes undercover on a reality dating show hoping to scoop a big story. Instead, she encounters a past one-night stand, country music star Rhett Auburn ...

When life gets really hectic, sitting quietly with a book can feel like an impossible luxury. And when does a smartphone-mediated world feel less than hectic? Any shred of free time is too easy to ...

Anthropic shredded millions of physical books to train its Claude AI model — and new documents suggest that it was well aware of just how bad it would look if anyone found out. The secret initiative, ...

In early 2024, executives at artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic ramped up an ambitious project they sought to keep quiet. “Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in ...

Two fiction books about good friends coming from different circumstances. Two biographies of people whose influence on American culture is, arguably, still underrated. One Liza Minnelli memoir. These ...

New year, new literary adventures. Authors Isaac Fitzgerald and Adriana Trigiani stopped by TODAY on the last day of 2025 to talk through the books they're looking forward to in the coming year. Their ...

From gripping thrillers, witty satires and poignant epics to captivating histories and juicy memoirs, 2025 was full of great books. Read on for 30 of our favorites. The latest from the Pulitzer ...

Now, fans of the film franchise can get a behind-the-scenes look at the special effects and animation that went into bringing the characters to life in a new book titled “The Making of Avatar.” ...

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 — ...

The dead of winter is the perfect time to take a vacation, even if you're doing so from the comfort of your couch. And as fans await the adaptation—not to mention the many other Henry works being ...