December 8, 2025 • Fresh Air's book critic says her picks tilt a bit to nonfiction, but the novels that made the cut redress the imbalance by their sweep and intensity. Karen Russell's The Antidote ...

From the creator of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, Pluribus is a bold new dystopian thriller from Vince Gilligan that reimagines what “a perfect world” really looks like. Now streaming, the series ...