One book is a great gift for the explorer in your life “Endurance: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Ship,” by John Shears, Nico Vincent (National Geographic, 2024) ...

The Griffin Poetry Prize has announced the 10 books longlisted for the 2025 prize. More than 500 books were submitted for this year’s $130,000 prize: jurors read 578 books, including 47 works in ...

On this week’s episode, A.O. Scott joins host Gilbert Cruz to talk about the value of close reading poetry. And the Book Review’s poetry editor Greg Cowles recommends four recently published ...