Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. The winner of this year’s National Book Award in fiction has published ...

The next poem should be of interest to the Tinian Cattleman’s ...

The winner of this year’s National Book Award in fiction has published several collections of poems. Our critic takes a look. In “Ira Gershwin: A Life in Words,” Michael Owen offers a ...

Down all the frosty ages you can hear them echoing behind us. Listen. SIMON: Now that poem is a children's book. COOPER: It's a family celebration of the light coming back after the dark threatens to ...

Down all the frosty ages you can hear them echoing behind us. Listen. SIMON: Now that poem is a children's book. COOPER: It's a family celebration of the light coming back after the dark threatens ...

For NPR's series "Picture This," illustrator Carson Ellis talks about working with author Susan Cooper to make Cooper's poem "Shortest Day" into a children's book. (This story first aired on ...

During the month of December, we are focusing our look through the pages of history books on the events and circumstances ...

New editions of books by John Dickson Carr, Tom Mead and Edna Sherry remind me why I loved them the first time. The first two books of “On the Calculation of Volume,” by Solvej Balle ...

For NPR's series "Picture This," illustrator Carson Ellis talks about working with author Susan Cooper to make Cooper's poem "Shortest Day" into a children's book. (This story first aired on Weekend ...

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