JAIPUR-Manika Vishwakarma will represent India at the prestigious Miss Universe 2025 competition, scheduled to be held in Thailand on November 21, as she won the grand finale of Miss Universe India ...

With the nation's big 2-5-0 coming up next year, NPR staff and critics recommended a lot of U.S.-focused titles for Books We Love, our annual year-end reading guide. Below you'll find 10 favorites — ...

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 ...

Our favorite titles of the year resurrect overlooked histories and examine how the United States ended up where it is today Science From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of ...

It was another incredible year in reading. Here are our favorite 20 books—including memoirs, buzzy literary fiction, and captivating histories—of 2025. Susan Choi’s engrossing new novel begins with a ...

The year 2025 hasn’t started out great. We’ve seen foreign wars, climate change, racist rhetoric, and political polarization escalate over the last several months, making many of us angry, burned out, ...

The New Deal, George Selgin suggests, did not work the way most historians claim. This economist’s eye-opening analysis shows that the increased government centralization of the 1930s rarely resulted ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. The NYPL is offering unlimited e-book access for some of their best-of-the-year titles Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant ...

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 ...

Correction: This story has been updated to correct a misspelling of Erin Kodicek's name. Get ready to get your tissues out – Amazon’s best books of the year list is full of heartfelt weepers that will ...