Nostalgic and magical, this book beautifully encapsulates the wonder and curiosity of children at Christmastime. In The ...

How much do you really know about baby animals? When can you start training a puppy? Why is the internet obsessed with Pesto the penguin? Time to test your baby animal knowledge.

Shakespeare most likely attended until about age 15. A horn book in the Folger collection, similar to one that Shakespeare might have learned to read from A few years after he left school, in late ...

It's a simple question without an easy answer: What makes a best book of the year? Is it a novel begging to become a contemporary classic or a retelling of the classics themselves? Is it a book ...

Found Image Holdings / Corbis via Getty Images Could a chimpanzee ever randomly type the complete works of Shakespeare ... They also used the animal’s average lifespan of around 30 years.

Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. By The New York Times Books Staff “The New India,” by Rahul Bhatia ...

As life expectancy in the U.S. increased, society’s interpretation of old age changed. Chappel chronicles how seniors themselves revised the narrative about aging and emerged as a dominant force ...

When I visited New York last autumn, this academic panorama of Shakespeare was enjoying a lengthy sojourn in the New York Times ... People (like me) were even seen reading it on aeroplanes. A ...

However you learned the facts of life, it changed you forever and in the new book, “A Little Queer Natural ... feelings or intentions to them – animals likely don’t understand gay from ...

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.

The next documented event in Shakespeare’s life is his marriage at the age of 18 to Anne Hathaway, the daughter of a local farmer, on November 28, 1582. She was eight years older than him and ...

Everett's "James," a daring reworking of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," won the National Book Award for fiction.