The best nonfiction books of the year tackle undeniably difficult topics. Many are personal stories about surviving the unthinkable. Salman Rushdie describes the violent attack that nearly killed him.

Barbara Graham’s life and death received plenty of attention in the 1950s, but she is about to return to the spotlight, courtesy of a new book, “Trial by Ambush” by author and former O.J ...

Jennifer Szalai, Dwight Garner and Alexandra Jacobs look back at the books that “offered refuge from the wheels grinding in our heads.” By Dwight GarnerJennifer Szalai and Alexandra Jacobs ...

Here are the year’s most notable picture, chapter and middle grade books, selected by our children’s books editor. By Jennifer Krauss The protagonists of “A Day With Mousse,” “Little ...

Spend the whole weekend in bed." This type of reading is best suited to classics—and it doesn't feel right, in our humble opinion, to be reading books set in scorching hot summer weather in the ...

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

"I have endeavoured in this ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me," Dickens ...

They've recommended countless books over the years that they credit with strengthening their business acumen and shaping their worldviews. Here are 20 books recommended by Musk, Bezos, and Gates ...

Soon after Netflix first launched its streaming model in 2007, Paste followed with our first list of the best movies streaming on Netflix. Little did we know that first guide to help movie fans ...

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"The Great Big Book of Everything" is a magical book owned by Stanley Griff in the 2001 series Stanley. It is a book on all kinds of animals, and it can be used to travel into the habitats of those ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Author Percival Everett attends the 75th National Book Awards ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street on Wednesday ...