Books

Move over, senior center — these 5 books center seniors

Heller McAlpin

These books, including Roxana Robinson's Leaving, which comes out on Tuesday, all concern older women — some in their 60s, others in their 90s — who fully intend to enjoy all their years.
Arts & Culture

Valentine's Day book recommendations from a San Diego bookstore owner and author

Julianna Domingo

Love is in the air, and what better way to celebrate than by cozying up with a swoony, romantic read? A San Diego bookstore owner and local romance author share their top book recommendations for the Valentine's season.
Is Bigfoot real? A new book dives deep into the legend

Gabino Iglesias

The Secret History of Bigfoot is a smart, hilarious, and wonderfully immersive journey into the history of Bigfoot, the culture around it, the people who obsess about it, and the psychology behind it.
Pregame the Super Bowl with our favorite football fiction

Beth Novey

Of course, leave it to the gigantic nerds at NPR to throw a literary tailgate ... but to thine own self be true, even if it means getting stuffed into your locker later this afternoon.
Reexamining the 'upskirt decade' and the public ridicule of female pop stars

Scott Detrow

Gabriel J. Sánchez

Sarah Handel

The new book Toxic: Women, Fame, and the Tabloid 2000s reassesses a time when popular culture policed, ridiculed and even took down a variety of women in the public eye.
Arts & Culture

How the art world excludes you and what you can do about it

Elizabeth Blair

First of all, can we stop using the word "liminal"? Bianca Bosker spent five years doing in-depth research for Get the Picture — an irreverent book about "strategic snobbery" in the art world.
A foster parent reflects on loving — and letting go of — the children in his care

Terry Gross

Mark Daley always knew the goal was reunification — but he was still devastated when the young boys in his care returned to their birth family. He writes about the experience in his new memoir, Safe.
Maurice Sendak delights children with new book, 12 years after his death

Elizabeth Blair

The late author-illustrator, creator of Pierre and Where the Wild Things Are, loved whistling, Mozart, and Mickey Mouse curios. His trademark whimsy can be found in the new book Ten Little Rabbits.
National

Police raided George Pelecanos' home. 15 years later, he's ready to write about it

Andrew Limbong

Crime fiction author and screenwriter George Pelecanos is known for his gritty realism. His latest short story collection takes that same unsparing look at his own past.
National

Target pulls Black History Month book that misidentified 3 civil rights icons

Jonathan Franklin

The magnet book mixed up W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington and Carter G. Woodson. Target said it will no longer sell the book in stores or online and that it notified the publisher of the errors.