These authors imagined worlds that feel shockingly real today, decades before they happened.

The book, which concerned the situation of Nationalists in Belfast, was banned 100 years ago and is now explored in the new Irish language documentary from Clean Slate Television. After violence ...

But all this fuss over “Gatsby” would have been hard to imagine when it first landed on store shelves 100 years ago. After receiving mixed reviews from literary critics, the book sold poorly.

Fitzgerald, who expected the book to be a smash ... impervious to accountability and incapable of empathy. A hundred years ago, Fitzgerald saw the dire patterns we are living through today.

The early years of the Indianapolis Library were modest ones. In 1873, three years after schools superintendent Abram Shortridge drafted legislation to create a library, the city's first book ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Michael Dean, editor of a new collection of long-forgotten Marvel horror comics called "Lost Marvels No.1: Tower of Shadows." ...