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A biographer celebrates Benjamin Franklin鈥檚 curiosity and joy in scienceThe 鈥榠ngenious鈥� Founding Father Benjamin Franklin receives his due as scientist-inventor in Richard Munson鈥檚 sparkling biography.
Raise the curtain on the 10 best books of JanuaryThe 10 best books of January 2025 embrace living on the edge, escaping convention, and confronting racism.
Music unlocks secrets about the design of the universeDaniel K.L. Chua鈥檚 expansive, eye-opening book documents how music from China to Greece has underpinned humanity鈥檚 search for joy.
End the year on a high note with the 10 best books of DecemberThe 10 best books of December include a spy novel, essays by physicist Alan Lightman, and a group biography of four women scientists in Nazi Germany.
Woodrow Wilson stood on the wrong side of historyIn 鈥淲oodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn,鈥� former U.S. Rep. Christopher Cox examines how the president undermined rights for women and Black people.
How Handel brought 鈥楾he Messiah鈥� to life in bleak timesIn 鈥滶very Valley,鈥� Charles King compellingly recounts how the composer, in a mere three weeks, wrote the soaring music for which he is best known today.聽
Why J. Edgar Hoover鈥檚 biographer worries about Kash Patel running the FBIAn author who studied J. Edgar Hoover鈥檚 complicated legacy at the FBI says she sees warning signs in the overt political statements by Trump nominee Kash Patel.
A year of plentiful prose: The best books of 2024The year鈥檚 best books include the novel 鈥淛ames鈥� by Percival Everett and a memoir by historian Doris Kearns Goodwin.
The 鈥榁oltaire of the Arabs鈥� is lionized in France, but imprisoned in AlgeriaThe detention of Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal in Algeria shows how the shadows of colonialism continue to haunt the world of French letters.
Cultures meet and meld deliciously in 3 new cookbooksWith these recipes, home cooks get to taste flavors from many cultures, often in the very same dish.聽聽
Five glorious art books bring the gallery to your couchFrom Japanese printmaker Hokusai to women pioneers of the arts and crafts movement, the images in these volumes offer light and joy to art lovers.
Neal Stephenson mixes polo, politics, and power in the novel 鈥楶olostan鈥�A Russian American girl straddles the worlds of her Ukraine-born Bolshevik father and her Montana-raised cowgirl mother in the 1920s and 鈥�30s in Neal Stephenson鈥檚 鈥淧olostan.鈥�
Curtis Chin grew up in a Chinese restaurant. He鈥檚 on a 300-city tour to save others.In cities across the United States, Chinatowns are struggling. American storyteller Curtis Chin, author of 鈥淓verything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant,鈥� is on a mission to save these vibrant cultural enclaves.
How 鈥楬istory Alice鈥� is getting Gen Z to learn about the pastAlice Loxton doesn鈥檛 believe history should be boring or academic. As 鈥淗istory Alice,鈥� she connects with millions of people on social media, and her second book, 鈥淓ighteen,鈥� already reached No. 1 in the U.K.
Beyond 鈥楪reen Gables鈥�: A new look at Anne鈥檚 creatorWho was L.M. Montgomery, beyond the writer of a beloved literary character? On the 150th anniversary of the author鈥檚 birth, Prince Edward Island is urging a broader understanding.
Good is 鈥榯he strongest gravity,鈥� says 鈥榃icked鈥� author MaguireFairy tales often present characters as either good or bad. 鈥淲icked鈥� author Gregory Maguire asks readers to let go of binary thinking as they consider morality.聽
Behind the stacks: The secret life of a librarianMy novel experience as a children鈥檚 librarian was not the quiet desk job I had envisioned. It was so much more.
She empowers people with disabilities to feel pride in their storiesGrowing up, Tiffany Yu felt shame about her disability and hid it. Now, the author of 鈥淭he Anti-Ableist Manifesto鈥� uses her experience to change the narrative.
The 10 best books of November set a bountiful table for readersDig in to the 10 best books of November, from Robin Wall Kimmerer鈥檚 nature essays to a biography of Johnny Carson.
鈥楾ime of the Child鈥� gently pulls back the layers of an Irish villageIn Irish novelist Niall Williams鈥� 鈥淭ime of the Child,鈥� an abandoned baby changes the lives of the village doctor, his daughter, and the townspeople.
