The novelist and musician is a voracious reader of books in translation. In “This Year,” he annotates the literary lyrics to ...

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 ...

When author Rabih Alameddine accepted his National Book Award for Fiction on Wednesday night, he thanked his agent, his editor and early readers of his work. He also thanked his psychiatrist, his drug ...

Old Dominion's taken home the CMA vocal group award every year since 2018. But the "Making Good Time" hitmakers put in a decade of work before they started routinely winning that CMA category. "We've ...