The Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Achievement in Audiobook Production is given in collaboration with Audible. Established in 2023, the prize focuses on performance, production and innovation in ...

Thanks to several decades of comic book saturation at the movies, we all know the plot beats of a superhero epic. An intriguing origin. A rise to power. An unexpected fall followed by a journey in the ...

New York-based cocktail historian David Wondrich had most recently finished editing an 860-plus-page compendium of knowledge about cocktail history when the opportunity arose to share cocktail history ...

Have you ever wondered why some books spark such intense debate they reshape entire societies? Throughout , certain written works have done more than tell stories. They’ve ignited revolutions, ...

With the nation's big 2-5-0 coming up next year, NPR staff and critics recommended a lot of U.S.-focused titles for Books We Love, our annual year-end reading guide. Below you'll find 10 favorites — ...

Today we have only scraps—at most 15%—of the tens of millions of written records created in the Middle Ages. Much of what has been lost, we will never even know existed. Robert Bartlett’s “History in ...

First issues have become something of an albatross for a lot of fans, mostly thanks to Marvel. First issues sell the best, so nowadays we get them all the time, but back in the newsstands days, things ...

DAVID MCCULLOUGH: Good evening. I'm David McCullough, and this is the first program in "The American Experience." SIMON: David McCullough wrote huge, bestselling books that range from the Johnstown ...

Next July, the United States will mark the 250th anniversary of its founding, a milestone set to be celebrated across the country. American history will serve as the centerpiece of many of these ...