You've heard of the "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" poem. But who actually wrote it, and what inspired these iconic holiday verses?

Nikki Giovanni died this week, at the age of eighty-one, as that rarest of things: a best-selling poet. Her work burst onto ...

Treat your friends and family to Christopher Cross' Christmas album, Cher's memoir or one of Tommy Lee Jones' best movies.

This country has lost more than a third of its bookstores in the last decade, but in Charlottesville – a small town with a ...

You know Nikki Giovanni's poems and the power of her words. Here are some facts you might not know about the poet and author ...

They say never meet your heroes, but I met this architect of Black joy in 2017 and learned an important life lesson ...

Unlike many of her Black Arts contemporaries, she honed her voice in poems about the comforts of home and domesticity and the particular strengths and joys of being a woman. She insisted that her ...

The legendary poet, who died on Monday, Dec. 9, spent some years in Philadelphia, recording an album of poetry and studying ...

Is he confident now that he made the right decision, or is he only imagining that he will one day — “ages and ages hence” — ...

NPR's Books We Love has returned. We share a few of the translated book titles included in this year's recommendations.

From irresistible fiction to must-read memoirs, our writers pick their favourite reads from 2024. This has been a vintage ...

This year, the holidays (Chanukah, Christmas, Kwanza, and New Year) fall between a sobering election, a disappointing climate conference, and an ominous inauguration. To get a recipient’s attention ...