The Novels Everyone Will Be Talking About in 2026

Tayari Jones, Ann Patchett, George Saunders and Veronica Roth return with new novels; Jennette McCurdy makes her fiction ...

Spread of ‘Misinformation and Disinformation’ Complicates the Recovery From L.A. Wildfires, Jacob Soboroff Says in New Book

NBC News correspondent Jacob Soboroff chronicles the 'incineration' of his hometown in new book 'Firestorm' on the Pacific ...

The Nonfiction Everyone Will Be Talking About in 2026

Memoirs by Sylvester Stallone and the founder of Barstool Sports; essays from celebrated novelists Jesmyn Ward and Jayne Anne ...

Rebecca Yarros Has Been Dropping Hints About the Next 'Fourth Wing' Book. Here's What We Know

The Fourth Wing series, also known as the Empyrean series, is about a 20-year-old woman named Violet Sorrengail who is thrown ...
The Verge

I’ve been waiting years for Animal Crossing’s best new features

The 3.0 update for New Horizons in January is free and very welcome. The 3.0 update for New Horizons in January is free and very welcome. Fast-forward a few years, and a very much unexpected update ...
WBEZ

The best reads of 2025, curated by our bookish staff

From literary fiction to sci-fi to deep dives in history, these books stayed with our reporters, producers and staffers long after the last page. This year in particular it feels hard to tell what is ...
NPR

U.S. State Department changes official font from Calibri back to Times New Roman

The U.S. State Department changed its official font from the reader-friendly Calibri back to Times New Roman. Michel Martin speaks with an accessibility design expert about why fonts matter. This is a ...
NPR

New books coming in December tell tales of the sea, colonialism and midlife

Ah, December! Crammed with holidays and short on sunlight, the month can be a lot to handle even in the best of times. So perhaps it's a relief that the publishing calendar all but peters out soon.