With a new year comes brand-new movies from the Hallmark Channel, starting with five originals during “Winter Escape” in January and four more for “Loveuary” in February. What can we look forward to ...

Seven decades ago, MLK wrote to his future wife, Coretta Scott, about his resolve to make meaning with his work. Likewise, we ...

The owners of a local independently-owned bookstore are opening a new store with books focused on California history. 2026 ...

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"In the face of so many book bans and so much concern about decreasing school library sales of queer content" publishers are ...

“This is a gorgeous and original meditation on Blackness through the lens of another color: blue. The National Book Award-winning author Imani Perry’s Black in Blues is a slim but profound volume of ...

Here are the year’s most notable picture and middle grade books, selected by our children’s books editor. Credit...Photo illustration by Sebastian Mast Supported by By Jennifer Krauss Jennifer Krauss ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. PEOPLE asked some buzzy and bestselling authors what they're most looking forward to reading in 2026 and you won't want to miss their ...

It’s that time of the year when PBS News Hour invites two of our regular literary critics, Ann Patchett and Maureen Corrigan, to highlight their favorite books of the year. Jeffrey Brown picks up the ...

Another year, another stack of great books to read. Jeffrey Brown talked with Maureen Corrigan, book critic for NPR’s Fresh Air, and author Ann Patchett about their top picks this year. The Loneliness ...

History has not graced us with many details about Shakespeare as a person, but we do know that he and his wife had three children, including a son named Hamnet who died at the age of 11 in 1596, four ...

Over 3,700 unique books were banned during the 2024-2025 school year, more than double the number of titles PEN America tracked in the 2021-2022 school year when it began counting. The nonprofit, ...