Looking back 50 years later, The Muppet Show feels like something that shouldn’t have worked—and somehow worked perfectly. A ...

While many think summer is the prime time to visit Westerly, a small town in Rhode Island, winter is just as magical in this quintessential New England town.

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Our columnist on three novels worth your time. By Sarah Lyall A middle-age man fighting illness and marital woe heads west in Ben Markovits’s poignant new novel, a Booker Prize finalist. By Alexandra ...

A middle-age man fighting illness and marital woe heads west in Ben Markovits’s poignant new novel, a Booker Prize finalist. By Alexandra Jacobs Our columnist has recommendations. By Judith Newman Our ...

NPR's Daniel Estrin talks with publisher Esther Margolis about the end of the era of mass market paperbacks. These inexpensively made books were once staples in most grocery and drug stores.

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Much of 2025 felt like an unfortunate detour from the real work the global coffee industry cannot keep postponing: making ...

The iconic Homo erectus fossil was welcomed home with a repatriation ceremony and a new museum exhibit in Jakarta.