There’s a misconception that cowboy poetry is a dying art form, but some 150 years later, the movement is experiencing a revival. Read more
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Adaptation of ‘His & Hers’ by Alice Feeney Premieres on January 8th
Two estranged spouses — one a cop, the other a news reporter — compete to solve a murder case in which each believes the other is a prime suspect. Watch trailer
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Dragons, Sex and the Bible: What Drove the Book Business This Year
Nonfiction and Y.A. are hurting, but genre fiction and the Good Book are booming. Read more
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The Best Music Books of 2025
These are some of our favorite books about music from 2025. Read more
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7 Podcasts for Bookworms
In a world filled with digital distractions, these shows will help you indulge, develop or rekindle a love for reading. Read more
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The Cultural Works Becoming Public Domain in 2026, From Betty Boop to Nancy Drew
Literary highlights include William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, the full version of Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon, Watty Piper’s The Little Engine that Could, the first four books of the Nancy Drew detective series and The Murder at the Vicarage, Agatha Christie’s first Miss Marple mystery. Read more
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Want To Read More in 2026? Here’s How To Revive Your Love of Books
People stop reading in adulthood for lots of reasons. But it’s never too late to turn the page on old habits and start again. Curling up with a good book can reduce stress, increase creativity and boost empathy. A recent analysis of U.S. government data found that the percentage of Americans who read for pleasure during an average day has fallen to 16% in 2023 from 28% in 2004. That includes not just books but audiobooks, e-books and periodicals like magazines. Read more
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Is the Dictionary Done For?
The print edition of Merriam-Webster was once a touchstone of authority and stability. Then the internet brought about a revolution. Read more
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William Maxwell’s Great American Novel
So Long, See You Tomorrow has been tipped as the new Stoner – but how did an ‘experiment in empathy’ from 1980 go viral in 2025? Read more
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Joan Didion and Kurt Vonnegut Had Something to Say. We Have It on Tape.
Tom Wolfe was a fast talker. Eudora Welty had a musical Southern drawl. Kurt Vonnegut’s jokes got belly laughs. Each of these authors once spoke to audiences at the 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center in New York City, which has hosted some of the most celebrated writers of the past several generations, from Isaac Asimov to Anaïs Nin and Kazuo Ishiguro to Margaret Atwood. Now, the Poetry Center has digitized audio recordings of its literary events stretching back to 1949 — hundreds of which have never been released before — in a collection that offers a glimpse into history and a taste of what the writers themselves were like in public. Read more
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