Books

Between the final battle and some key needle drops, there was a little too much talking.

The 12th Edition includes some 5,000 new words and weighs almost five pounds.

Andrew Limbong and BA Parker from the Books We Love podcast are revisiting Terry McMillan's classic, Waiting to Exhale.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Reese Witherspoon and Harlan Coben about their thriller, Gone Before Goodbye.

Tuberculosis was, for millennia, was the world's deadliest infection.

Each year, critic Linda Holmes looks back on the year and compiles a list of the things that brought her joy.

Every year, we remember some of the writers, actors, musicians, filmmakers and performers who died over the past year, and whose lifetime of creative work helped shape our world.

NPR critic Bob Mondello narrows down his favorite movies of the year — the ones that made audiences vibrate.

Giménez international attention after she attempted to restore an old fresco. While it was immediately ridiculed at the time, the piece eventually turned into a tourist attraction.

J.S. Park helps patients and their families cope with death every day as a hospital chaplain. He explains what to expect as a person is dying, and how to reckon with uncomfortable feelings about death.