UPDATE: As Ron Charles notified us on Twitter and an NPR article on the developments indicates, “eight of the 28 positions being eliminated are already vacant, Senior Vice President for… Read more »

It’s rough out there on the bleeding edge of digital whatsit fiction. You’re on the last anti-chapter of your hyperlinked extra-illustrated mash-up of House of Leaves and Make Way for… Read more »

Next month, Marvel will introduce its new Ms. Marvel, a superhero pseudonym that’s been used by three other characters previously, since it originated in 1977 with Carol Danvers, an Air… Read more »

It’s December, that magical season when the world is awash in best-of lists and holiday guides; but if you’re looking for the usual series of best book lists from NPR,… Read more »

Under his own name, Andrew Neiderman is probably best known for writing the novel The Devil’s Advocate, which itself is better known as the 1997 film version. But as Rachel Martin… Read more »

If you’ve ever aspired to become a wine connoisseur but don’t have the money to spend on the finer vintages to develop your palate, there’s a new scratch-and-sniff book that… Read more »

NPR’s Alix Spiegel reported on a really cool project this week: essentially on a whim, a team of researchers in England started charting the frequency of words that carry emotional content in… Read more »

For those of us who find economics baffling once things get more complicated than the most basic concept of supply-and-demand, Ari Shapiro has compiled a series of interviews with literary… Read more »

Last month we told you about an NPR story about the number of bookmobiles dwindling across the country—this Sunday, Weekend Edition announced that at least one of these trucks will… Read more »

With National Poetry Month coming to an end soon, poetry fans are taking advantage of Thursday’s Poem in Your Pocket Day, which is exactly what it sounds like: people celebrating… Read more »