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Our January pick for Now Read This, the PBS NewsHour's book club with The New York Times, is Jia Tolentino's…

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We asked our readers which songs helped them survive a strange and devastating year. Some tracks offered an escape. Some…

"I thought I could somehow bridge the two," Ling Ma recently told the PBS NewsHour of her novel "Severance." "What…

Boba Fett was a fairly minor character when Bulloch first played him in 1980's "The Empire Strikes Back." But the…

The one and only Jerry Seinfeld has had a big year with a Netflix special and a new book. Jeffrey…