Every bookshelf has its heavy hitters. The classics everyone claims to have read, the modern bestsellers everyone actually has read. But tucked away in the dusty corners of literary history, there are ...

NPR's brings you news about books and authors along with our picks for great reads. Interviews, reviews, and much more.

How to escape the resource curse? Andrew Ross Sorkin’s 1929 is an artful yet flawed reprise of John Kenneth Galbraith’s book on the same topic. Government partnership comes with a high hidden cost.

A bestselling shock to the postwar ideal, 'The Feminine Mystique' exposed the quiet discontent beneath domestic perfection., ...