While up to his eyeballs in Avatar sequels, James Cameron made a deathbed promise to Tsutomu Yamaguchi (one of the survivors ...

We’ve all heard the story about waking up as a cockroach—but what if a crisis turned you into a clam? After the dissolution ...

The fantasy author Ayana Gray recommends gripping novels where the monsters are heroes, villains and everything in between.

The journalists at NPR who report on books are also avid readers. We asked NPR staff how they decide which books and authors to cover, with the big book publishers alone putting out roughly 100,000 ...

Beloved author Allan Ahlberg, who wrote the children’s classic Funnybones, has died aged 87, his publisher Penguin Random ...

When AMC announced a new adaptation of Interview with the Vampire, some artistic freedom was expected, since the show format gives plenty of room to explore Anne Rice’s universe. But what fans ...

Billie Jean King’s resume is missing one thing — a college degree — so, at 81, she's back in the school where she started: ...

One of the last eunuchs of the Ottoman Empire, speaking in 1938, proposed a title for his own biography: Scream. He had never, he explained, forgotten the screams of his mother and brother when they ...

This week, writer Denise Mina and two debut novelists spoke about their latest novels that range from a thriller about lying, ...

Now with 37 inductees, the List of Excluded Persons includes mob associates, cheats, thieves and a human trafficker, all ...

Reaching a goal of $90,000 would “kick start” the program, said Becca Baumbach, the foundation’s executive director.

Science in ancient Egypt and Greece followed a similar pattern: It thrived during good times and fell off in periods of ...