With a few notable exceptions, American presidents nurtured a lifetime habit of sustained character-building reading.

Many years ago, I remember reading a piece on a now-defunct pop culture website that rhapsodized about the underrated brilliance of The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt. At the time, the book was out of ...

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The best-selling author of “A Man Called Ove,” “Anxious People,” and the “Beartown” trilogy highlights four novels from his ...

Season 3 of hit HBO series "The White Lotus" may be wrapping soon, but you can keep the drama going with these books about vacationers behaving badly.

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E.A. Hanks, the daughter of Tom Hanks and his first wife Susan Dillingham, investigates a haunting family mystery and the ...

Nearly 50 years after officer Jerry Ivey was killed in the line of duty, his story, and how the community responded, is being told in a new book.

Andrew Limbong of the NPR Books team shares the nonfiction books he's most looking forward to reading this spring.