Every year, we ask NPR staff and book critics to share their favorite titles in our annual Books We Love guide. Behind the scenes, it’s fun to spot trends and see what gets nominated again and again.
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Author: Beth Novey
Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience, or gives pleasure and delight. It can be an idea or a task, but is more likely to be one of the activities or events that have developed over thousands of years specifically for the purpose of keeping an audience’s attention.[1]
The arts represent an outlet of expression that is usually influenced by culture and which in turn helps to change culture. As such, the arts are a physical manifestation of the internal creative impulse.
Every year, we ask NPR staff and book critics to share their favorite titles in our annual Books We Love guide. Behind the scenes, it’s fun to spot trends and see what gets nominated again and again.
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Author: Beth Novey
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Author: Lillian Stone
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Author: Dahlia Gallin Ramirez
In the Netflix series The Madness, Colman Domingo plays a CNN pundit who witnesses a brutal murder, and then finds himself on the run as he’s framed for the crime. What follows is a paranoid thriller full of sinister forces, evil billionaires, underground militias, devious assassins, and lots of red herrings.
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Author: Stephen Thompson
NPR’s Eric Deggans plays the puzzle with CapRadio listener Greg Felton of Stateline, Nev., and Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.
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Author: Will Shortz
This American Life host Ira Glass doesn’t care about how people will remember him, “I’m not making a radio show for them”
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Author: Rachel Martin
A small town in Germany turns its town hall into the ‘world’s largest’ advent calendar each December. It started as a way to boost businesses in the winter, but it’s grown to mean much more.
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Author: Andrew Craig
This week, Wait Wait celebrates Thanksgiving with a cornucopia of incredible guests!
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Long before the new movie “Wicked” made a sympathetic character of the Wicked Witch of the West, she was played by actress Margaret Hamilton in the classic film, The Wizard of Oz. But it was not easy being green. (This story first aired on All Things Considered on November 28, 2024.)
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Author: Neda Ulaby
Hallmark’s partnership with the Kansas City Chiefs seems perfectly timed to capitalize on Taylor Swift’s relationship with Travis Kelce. But the story of a family’s devotion to a sports team is something many fans can relate to.
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Author: Linda Holmes