Taylor Swift 's "Wood" was certainly a hot topic this year. The music database Genius released its year-end statistics earlier this week, and a particularly scandalous lyric from Swift's The Life of a ...

Let’s get the embarrassing part out of the way first. Last January, hungover and hopeful, I made the same promise I make every year: I am going to become ...

From tear-jerkers to mic-drops, NPR's music critics share the 2025 lyrics that made them laugh, cry and hit replay.

The Lede Reporting and commentary on what you need to know today. This way of perceiving social reality—and particularly a person’s reading life—may seem inane, even deranged. But performative reading ...

Hands up - who else finds treadmill workouts dull? If I can help it, I avoid them with a ten-foot barge pole. I’ll always choose a real pavement over a moving belt; running in crisp air, walking with ...

Here is the standout fiction and nonfiction of the year, selected by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. Credit...Jack Smyth Supported by By The New York Times Books Staff Each January, the ...

To put it lightly, 2025 has been . . . tumultuous. This madcap year marks the halfway point of the 2020s, a period that has brought instability and chaos like we've never seen before. What started ...

Worth another look... Although published in 2012, this remains a definitive read on leadership, management and disciplined capital allocation. In an era defined by volatility, technological disruption ...

A prominent Bay Area author said one of his books has been quietly flagged at Yosemite National Park as part of a March 2025 federal directive aiming to remove and revise “negative” information ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. Books by Taylor Jenkins Reid, R.F. Kuang, Mary Roach and more round out the list's love stories for the ages, engaging nonfiction and ...

They say the holidays are the most wonderful time of the year, but around these parts, we know nothing tops the launch of the annual Popsugar Reading Challenge — our take on a virtual book club that ...