We were overwhelmed by the response to our annual Letters to Santa feature, with more than 1,250 letters submitted this year. Due ...

When you’re down to the wire and still want to show up as the family’s legendary gift-giver, these last-minute gifts can convince everyone else that no, you didn’t wait until the last minute to get ...

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A store set up by the Gansu Provincial Museum sells creative cultural products inspired by local specialties in Lanzhou, including potatoes. [Photo/Xinhua] LANZHOU — In a bustling commercial plaza in ...

“We do one book after state testing, and we did ‘The Great Gatsby.’ … A lot of kids had not read a novel in class before.” — Laura Henry, 10th-grade English teacher near Houston “My son in 9th grade ...

Tommy Egan (Joseph Sikora) will go to extremes to get what he wants. The sixth episode of the third and final season of "Power Book IV: Force" will air on Starz on Friday, Dec. 12. Egan is steadfast ...

On the Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025, episode of The Excerpt podcast: From AI thrillers to found-family favorites, 2025 gave us stories that hit hard. USA TODAY Books Reporter Clare Mulroy joins The Excerpt ...

Here’s a thought many of us have these days: if only we weren’t on our damn phones all the time, we would surely unlock a better self—one that went on hikes and talked more with our children and felt ...

The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction. Credit...By Sebastian Mast Supported by The envelope, please: After a full year spent reading hundreds of ...

The Lede Reporting and commentary on what you need to know today. This way of perceiving social reality—and particularly a person’s reading life—may seem inane, even deranged. But performative reading ...