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“This is a gorgeous and original meditation on Blackness through the lens of another color: blue. The National Book Award-winning author Imani Perry’s Black in Blues is a slim but profound volume of ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Before looking ahead to the new year and the exciting titles to come, critics and readers reflected on their most memorable children’s and ...

‘Tis the season for reflecting on a well-read year. So, after all that reading, which books are we still thinking about now? The truth is, the best book of the year is deeply personal to every reader.

I’m a stand-up comedian. Not a book critic. I don’t want to be a book critic. And writing about books is really fucking hard. I don’t want to recap the plots or write shit like “languorous prose.” I ...

Another year, another stack of great books to read. Jeffrey Brown talked with Maureen Corrigan, book critic for NPR’s Fresh Air, and author Ann Patchett about their top picks this year. The Loneliness ...

So, you want to get into Python programming, huh? It’s a pretty popular language, and for good reason. Lots of people are looking for good resources to learn it, especially free ones. We found a bunch ...

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 ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. Featuring exciting new releases in fiction, nonfiction, thriller, historical fiction, romance and more, these are PEOPLE's critics' ...

Slate receives a commission when you purchase items using the links on this page. Thank you for your support. In a chaotic and distressing year, books provided a respite, a chance to commune with ...

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 ...