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Elizabeth Gilbert’s Latest Epiphanies
“Elizabeth Gilbert has a new memoir out.” The mere sentence radiates gentle inspiration—watercolors, billowy pants with elephants printed…
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Culture
Helen Oyeyemi’s Novel of Cognitive Dissonance
Few fantasies are harder to wipe away than the romance of a clean slate. Every January, when we’re twitchy with regret and self-loathing,…
News
AI gives students more reasons to not read books. It’s hurting their literacy
A perfect storm is brewing for reading. AI arrived as both kids and adults were already spending less time reading books than they did in…
News
Drag queens, puberty guides: See the Pentagon's list of banned books
To Matt Corey, the Defense Department's move to boot a transgender coming-of-age novel from the shelves at its civilian schools is the…
Culture
‘Pride and Prejudice’ and Vampires: New AI-Driven Role-Playing Platform Launches With Plans to Gamify Fan Fiction Across Books, Movies and TV IP
New role-playing gaming platform Hidden Door debuted Wednesday with features that allow users to create their own stories within iconic…
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Why Hasn’t Medical Science Cured Chronic Headaches?
Two decades ago, I was leaving my morning clinic at the hospital where I work when I suddenly felt an excruciating pain in my head. It was…
Business
Top 8 business books of 2025 so far
Check out eight of the sharpest, boldest business books shaping how we think, lead, and grow as professionals in 2025. After the Idea:…
Culture
How the Poet James Schuyler Wrung Sense from Sensibility
The American poet James Schuyler composed his first significant poem during a nine-week stay at the Payne Whitney Westchester psychiatric…
Business
iFast books S$50.3 million net institutional inflow in five sessions
Over the five trading sessions from Jul 25 to 31, institutions were net sellers of Singapore stocks. The net institutional outflow of…
Business
What We Miss When We Talk About the Racial Wealth Gap
His reluctance to treat family structure as a causal factor is similarly puzzling. He notes that married Black households have an average…
Culture
The Semi-Fictional Book That Transformed the Culinary World
It was early in 1985, during the first warm, blossoming weeks of spring in San Francisco, when I became hellbent on getting my old job…
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Three Books to Understand Our Ravaged Climate
The summer of 2025 has been a season of climate-driven catastrophes: wildfires in Turkey, flooding in China and the U.S., and fatally high…
Culture
“Clint” Highlights the Artistic Modernity of an Old-School Man
Clint Eastwood is as impersonal a personal filmmaker as modern Hollywood has to offer. What makes his movies personal is more their ideas,…
Culture
The First Time America Went Beard Crazy
A stroll through the Presidential-portrait wing at the National Portrait Gallery, in Washington, D.C., is, among other things, a game of…
News
New Audiobook on Idaho Murders Tops Audible Charts As Bryan Kohberger Awaits Sentencing
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Business
Julius Baer seeks to cut bonuses of bankers with risky books: sources
The move comes as the Swiss lender’s top management seek to reset and put the bank on a path for growth after a string of missteps Julius…
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What Will Become of the C.I.A.?
In December, 1988, as the Soviet Union was beginning to come apart, Senator Bill Bradley, a member of the Senate Select Committee on…
Culture
A Memoir of Working-Class Britain Wrings Playfulness from Pain
The escape from working-class life has good narrative pedigree, a classic form—beginning with the idea of escape itself. It’s something…
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This 15-Pound Superman Coffee Table Book Is 42% Off on Amazon Ahead of New Film Reboot
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A Quietly Subversive Novel About Renewal on the Italian Riviera
Recognizing oneself as one really is and not as one appears to others is the major theme of Elizabeth von Arnim’s work. Von Arnim, an…
Business
Trans books removed from children's library, Reform council says
Michael Keohan & Christian Fuller BBC News, South East A council has removed all transgender-related books from the children's sections of…
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10 Plus Size Romance Books for Your Next Read
Finding the free time to read a new book can be difficult, especially when none of the main characters feel like you. However, when it…
Business
Elmore Leonard’s Perfect Pitch
Out of interest, could this be the best beginning to the sixth chapter of any book, by anyone, ever? The girl with the stringy blond hair…
Culture
Is Technology Really Ruining Teens’ Lives?
In early 2021, the journalist Matt Richtel spoke to a father who was a few weeks into a nightmare. Tatnai Burnett was a doctor, his wife…