Fran begins piano lessons and is commanded to practice all night by her blind, cane-owning Russian teacher, Josef. Bernard has a date with an attractive customer. Both eager to impress (or escape a ...

Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. In “The Woman Who Knew Everyone,” Meryl Gordon offers a thorough biography ...

By The New York Times Books Staff She Changed History, Then Erased Her Own In “The Secret History of the Rape Kit,” Pagan Kennedy explores the tangled story of a simple but life-changing ...

The new book “El Cid: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Mercenary” delves into the truths and misunderstandings about the legendary knight. The new novel by “The Reader” author Bernhard ...

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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.

Rumors of a Nintendo Switch 2 have been circulating for years. Whispers of the next-gen Nintendo console first started when The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom was initially teased in 2019 ...

The Nintendo Switch 2 is finally official with the Japanese gaming giant posting a video that gives us a quick look at the new hybrid console, and a release window of... 2025. There's a load of ...

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.

With that in mind, here are all the rumors we've heard about the Nintendo Switch 2 and what we’d like to see. This original rumor suggested that Nintendo had moved the release date of its next ...

Now paralysed from the neck down he is finally telling his side of the story. The Daily Mail Books department chooses their favourite fiction of the century. When 50 American hostages were ...

Your TBR list is getting longer... The simple joy of reading a book can inspire so much. While we’re turning their pages, we use our imaginations to live inside entire worlds with its characters.