Crafting The New York Times Book Review’s annual list involves arguments, politicking and, every once in a while, a rare ...

The title of a new book by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson asks a provocative question. "What If We Get It Right?" The it there is the climate crisis. Johnson structures this book around 20 interviews with ...

One of the global problems addressed at the U.N. General Assembly is the climate crisis. Multiple wars and other geopolitical tensions have cast a particularly sobering shadow over whether nations can ...

Editor’s Note: Previously, this series on scholarly publishing has offered advice on approaching an editor, getting a book contract, and writing a “timely” book. I received a contract for my monograph ...

In a new book, the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker argues that an awareness that everyone knows what you know is a powerful driver of human social life. By Dennis Duncan Dennis Duncan teaches ...

“The beauty with books is that there will always be new books to read,” says Jack Edwards, a books-focused content creator Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes ...

Over 3,700 unique books were banned during the 2024-2025 school year, more than double the number of titles PEN America tracked in the 2021-2022 school year when it began counting. The nonprofit, ...

Acclaimed classic “The Handmaid’s Tale” is one of the most-removed books in Florida schools. New lists from a nonprofit advocacy group and the Florida Department of Education both place that book in ...

Like any online community, bookish spaces come with their own lingo. Ever heard someone refer to an author as an “auto-buy”? They’re telling you they would pick up anything said author published ...

Warning: This post contains spoilers for Season 3 of "The White Lotus." Fans are reading into everything in “The White Lotus.” Literally. Only two episodes remain in the third season of “The White ...

Recently, I was invited to the Dalkey Book Festival, in Ireland, to speak at a session titled “Books That Changed the World.” I assumed that, as a Shakespeare scholar, I was expected to talk about the ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. “You have to read this book,” my new psychologist informed me. As a teenager, I was ...