Every leader leaves their mark on the hearts and minds of a workforce. This can go one of two ways: leaders can leave behind a legacy of inspiration, or infuriation. Based on thousands of perspectives ...

Our staff writes about the best books that they read over the course of the year. Our staff writes about the best books that they read over the course of the year. These days when you want to engage ...

There’s never really a bad time to be reading comics, but 2025 proved to be an especially strong year for the industry. From DC’s Absolute Universe and Marvel’s Ultimate Universe to Skybound’s Energon ...

It was a banner year for literature, with a plethora of intriguing and memorable releases. The publishing world delivered boundary-pushing fiction alongside heavily researched and introspective ...

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 ...

Back when I first published this list in 2017, my two daughters were just 3 years and 7 months old. Now somehow I find myself the mom of an 11-year-old and an 8-year-old who have largely outgrown ...

There is a disjunction at the heart of children’s literature. It is that the placing of words and brushstrokes, the arranging of every publishing deal and the selling and buying of every book, is ...

From daring contemporary collections to the long-awaited definitive edition from one of the major poets of the 20th century, this is our pick of the best poetry books of the year. Whether you’re a ...

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 ...

Photography’s most compelling voices this year looked backward, outward and inward to re-examine how images shape our understanding of the natural world, cultural rituals and the roots of the medium ...

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 ...