There’s a magical place in the Bronx called Storyland Book Lounge. Its goal is to encourage young children to read, and they try to make it fun. They even got a surprise ...

Midwest startup debuts 'Paper-fi,' a new medium using computer vision to sync audio scores with printed books—zero hardware in the books.

Marc Shaiman's New York Times Bestselling memoir's audiobook features performances from Christian Borle, Matthew Broderick, ...

There are only a few weeks left in 2025. That means for those of you who resolved, at the beginning of the year, to do more reading — it's crunch time. Did you actually put down your phone long enough ...

Taylor Swift pulls back the curtain of The Eras Tour in her new docuseries, The End of an Era, the first two episodes of which are full of behind-the-scene footage. Including Taylor prepping for her ...

“Harry Potter” is coming to life in two major ways: HBO’s upcoming TV series and Audible’s narrated audiobooks of all seven of J.K. Rowling’s novels. While HBO’s and Audible’s casts are both ...

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Since its premiere at Cannes Film Festival back in May of this year, The History of Sound has generated more buzz than your average wartime melodrama, largely due to its star casting. With Paul Mescal ...

Picture yourself at a concert. If you’re standing by the soundboard, usually near the rear center of the venue, you’ll enjoy the best possible version of the band’s performance—what the “sound guy,” ...

Brian Anderson’s ‘Loud and Clear’ captures the strenuous work, psychedelic vision and lasting influence of the band’s most audacious sound-system experiment. By Noah Eckstein When journalist Brian ...

Alan Niven considers his career in music to be “utterly extraordinary, and entirely accidental.” And that may even be an understatement. The New Zealand-born, England-raised Niven has been an artist ...

Times — and The Times — have changed since the first Festival of Books was held in 1996. What hasn’t is our commitment to this vibrant community of readers and writers, with the annual spring ritual ...