NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with James Wolff, the pseudonym of a former British intelligence officer who now writes about them in spy novels. His latest book is Spies and Other Gods.

A new book on Elon Musk examines his wide influence, impressive achievements, and flawed ideology of centralization.

David Jonsson (Alien: Romulus) and Tom Blyth (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes) talk to us about how ...

As the president threatens to wipe out Iran and attacks the pope, even some former allies and advisers are questioning ...

The wild success of his debut novel validated Jay McInerney’s literary ambitions and for decades gave him license to indulge.

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Cognitive processes are not something that we generally pay much attention to until something goes wrong, but they cover the ...

Gates is a supporter of Alzheimer’s research, but scammers are using his name and likeness to promote fraudulent “cures” for ...

Author Rachel Zoffness breaks down why we have chronic pain and how science shows that it’s all in our head ...

Steve Brusatte, author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs and The Story of Birds, recommends 10 dinosaur books to dig into ...

Planet Books, the 4,000-square-foot warehouse of used tomes, toys, life-size posters and delicate antiquities, has found a ...

Imagine you’re in a bookstore and you wander over to the fiction section. There, you find two shelves: one for human-written ...