In 2024, Boss Fight Books released a book on Animal Crossing, written by game historian Kelsey Lewin, exploring how this all began. Below, as part of Polygon’s Culture Shock special issue ...

Animal Crossing: New Horizons is quickly approaching its fifth anniversary. Though Animal Crossing: New Horizons' last major update came in November 2021, this hasn't stopped the community from ...

An upcoming PlayStation game called Anime Life Sim recently garnered attention for looking like a blatant Animal Crossing clone. The game seems to rip off the latest entry in Nintendo's series ...

What are three popular tropes that romance novels use? Jennifer Harlan, a New York Times books editor, recommends three romance novels that show off those tropes at their best. An author of books ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. Our recommended books this week tilt heavily toward European culture and history, with a new history of the Vikings, a group ...

Nintendo is collaborating with Sea Life UK to tour an interactive, live Animal Crossing: New Horizons experience. The event will allow guests to "discover incredible marine life alongside some of ...

In the literary world, this year is shaping up to be a good one for fans of cultural criticism: There are new books about Better Call Saul and biographies of James Gandolfini and Lorne Michaels on ...

(What? Just me?) There’s no such thing as an excess of good books, but the roster of forthcoming publications is certainly staggering. Fiction lovers have much to look forward to, with incoming ...

Two new books, “The Sirens’ Call” by Hayes and “Superbloom” by Carr, argue that our capacity for attention and connection has been devastated by the digital age “Elita” is a novel ...

Former Manchester City captain Tony Book has died at the age of 90. One of the most successful players in the club's golden era of the late 1960s and early 1970s, Book won domestic and European ...

This much anticipated novel comes from the mind of Pulitzer-Prize and National Book Award finalist, Laila Lalami. The brilliantly twisted piece of literary science fiction is a timely examination ...