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.

As fires have raged, so have citations of the prescient author Mike Davis. But in a changed world, we need new thinkers too.

By Laura Collins-Hughes In a vibrant collection of “essays on the future that never ... chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. In “Open Socrates,” the scholar Agnes Callard ...

Benjamin Rifkin calls for incentivizing preparation for class discussions and making expectations for student engagement more ...

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Bapsi Sidhwa, who always wished to be recognised as a Pakistani novelist, passed away on 25 December 2024 in Houston, Texas. Born in Karachi and raised in Lahore, she was a Lahorite through and ...

What distinguishes fiction from nonfiction? The answer to this perennial question relies on how we understand reality itself ...

Art has been behind — and indeed at the core of — every great revolution and social movement. There a mountain of important ...

Notwithstanding a minuscule reading public, books have always occupied an important place in Nepal. But it is growing ...

Arun Kamal is presently immersed in the writing of five distinct upcoming literary works. These encompass a compilation of his poetry book, a collection of insightful literary essays, a series of ...

Happy Sunday. As our Dispatch Faith essay by writer Jake Meador points out today, Donald Trump’s connections to the late ...

Kyle Chayka on TikTok in limbo. Plus: how a school shooting became a video game; climate whiplash and the L.A. fires; and the ...