Have you ever been told why you were named as you were? Did it just sound good? Were you named after a famous person? Were ...

PROMINENT Zimbabwean playwright, director, theatre educator and novelist Styx Mhlanga has breathed life into a new isiNdebele ...

Indian Bengali writer Amitav Ghosh has been writing about empire, the environment, and other subjects for the past 25 years.

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Tampa Bay Buccaneers Legendary Radio Broadcaster Gene Deckerhoff spoke to the media before the start of Panthers vs. Bucs.

Despite all the chaos of 2025, I accomplished something I'd not accomplished before: Completion of a "Bible in a Year" plan.

He had been watching his wife prepare breakfast, making lots of trips between the refrigerator, stove, table and cabinets, ...

“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 ...

Taylor Swift pulls back the curtain of The Eras Tour in her new docuseries, The End of an Era, the first two episodes of which are full of behind-the-scene footage. Including Taylor prepping for her ...

The best way to fight doomscrolling in 2025? Getting off your phone and picking up a book. Luckily for us, there were plenty of un-put-down-able reads this year. Whether your genre of choice is ...

It’s that time of the year when PBS News Hour invites two of our regular literary critics, Ann Patchett and Maureen Corrigan, to highlight their favorite books of the year. Jeffrey Brown picks up the ...

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 ...