Now the oldest living star of classic Tinseltown has turned 106 today and is the last actress left alive who featured in both 1939’s Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz. Caren Marsh Doll was ...

To Kill a Mockingbird’ Set in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930s, Harper Lee’s Pulitzer prize-winning novel is a ...

When F. Scott Fitzgerald​ wrote "The Great Gatsby"​ at the height of the roaring '20s, he couldn't possibly realize that the book would emerge as one of the very top contenders for "the great American ...

With its fantastical, romantic subject matter, luxurious excess and its beloved language – not to mention the nostalgia many ...

Among the most vulnerable members of the workforce, a group of day laborers — many of them Latino immigrants — went out into the streets of Los Angeles as volunteers to help with cleanup efforts in ...

Peter Godwin, who has seen death up close a few times over the course of his life, examines grief and belonging in a new ...

Patti Smith has announced a fourth memoir, Bread of Angels, to be published on November 4. The publication date is described ...

Colum McCann's new novel, Twist, tracks a group at sea tasked with repairing the underwater cables through which we all ...

Irish writer Claire Anderson-Wheeler does more than just adapt one of the American literary canon’s most famous works in “The ...

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.

By Alexandra Jacobs In his new book, David Szalay offers unvarnished scenes from a lonely, rags-to-riches life. By Dwight Garner A new book by the neuroscientist Leor Zmigrod explores the ...

As F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' turns 100, writer Rob Kyff revisits Connecticut's influence on the novel.