Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes for both print and digital platforms. A May-December friendship, a gripping marital mystery and self-improvement for ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. As we prepare to turn the corner into 2025, poetry is in the spotlight this week, with new books of verse from Percival Everett ...

When I taught high-school English, I loved planning out the syllabus, book by book. Once chosen, one novel might lead naturally to another; certain titles seemed to go with certain seasons.

(Laura Battle, FT) "Funny, tender and deeply moving... [it] brought me more pleasure than any other book this year." (Johanna Thomas-Corr, The Sunday Times) The Story of a Heart by Rachel Clarke ...

Bloom Books took off with the help of E L James, the author of “Fifty Shades of Grey.” It broke with tradition and became the fastest-growing imprint in romance. By Alexandra Alter A few years ...

I’m sure many of you did the same. A good book is escapist. But at its strongest, reading is an utterly transformative act – the lessons we learn, the characters we meet and the perspectives ...

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We reviewed a full range of the best free PDF editor software around to find out which ones deliver the best experience and the most features while still being completely free to use. Alongside a ...

So naturally, when I saw Emma and Susan Straub’s new book, Gaga Mistake Day, I was intrigued by this other Gaga. The story, written by a mother-daughter team, follows a free-spirited grandmother ...

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We had the very first Women’s Prize for Nonfiction, awarded to Naomi Klein for her remarkable book Doppelganger, while V V Ganeshananthan’s sweeping Sri Lanka-set Brotherless Night won the ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Books are, despite the common adage, often intended to be judged by their covers. Their jacket flaps include marketing copy designed to entice a browser to ...