Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times. Our critic on four excellent new novels. By Alida Becker In “The Typewriter and the Guillotine,” Mark Braude takes on the ...

An exploration of how writing systems, from ancient Chinese characters to modern alphabets, shape language, and whether users of ChatGPT can be said to be authors at all.

The term Colombian Exchange was first used in 1972 by American historian and professor Alfred W. Crosby in his environmental history book of the same name. It has now become a widely used term by ...

2 hours and 30 minutes, including one intermission. The Book of Mormon follows two young missionaries who are sent to Uganda to try to convert citizens to the Mormon religion. One missionary, Elder ...

Do you love reading the book before the movie or TV show? Well, you’ve come to the right place. Maybe this is the year you make the resolution to read more books attached to theatrical and streaming ...

Last year I had my first taste of professional live tennis at the Australian Open. Since I was only in Melbourne for the ...

January 27, 2026 • Writer Jason Zengerle says Carlson had the foresight to see Trump's potential in 2015. Now he's someone the president "definitely listens to." Zengerle's new book is Hated by All ...

January 7, 2026 • Baker & Taylor is one of very few companies that handle book distribution for libraries — getting books from publishers into borrowers hands. But a few months ago, the company ...

The largest festival in Brazil took a terrifying turn on its final day when two festival goers were shot during a DJ set by Diplo. A male model has died after collapsing on the catwalk at Sao Paulo ...