The year 2025 hasn’t started out great. We’ve seen foreign wars, climate change, racist rhetoric, and political polarization escalate over the last several months, making many of us angry, burned out, ...

Birder? Cat lover? Packers fan? Party goer? Brain surgeon who loves science fiction? Our annual list of recommended new books for holiday gifts has something for you. Here is a varied selection of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth and Power by Victoria Bateman (Headline/Seal Press) Women have ...

Consumed: How Big Brands Got Us Hooked on Plastic by Saabira Chaudhuri (Blink Publishing) We all know about the toll plastic pollution is taking on the health of humans and the planet. Less well known ...

When Basic Books Group president and publisher Lara Heimert told her mom that she was going to work at the Hachette division's flagship imprint, back in 2005, she was elated. "My mother said, Oh, they ...

As the federal administration has moved to slash public funding for research and education at all levels, and as the government now enters into what could be a prolonged shutdown, many researchers are ...

When anti-Trump forces burst forth in rallies across the country this spring, their quirky “No Kings” battle cry proved to be a stroke of genius, a succinct and nonideological way to protest the ...

Justice Samuel Alito, a conservative member of the Supreme Court, will publish a book next year, joining several of his colleagues who have inked deals in recent months to publish. Alito, who was ...

When particle physicist and University of Oxford professor emeritus Frank Close learned he had non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2023, his treatment included three weeks of radiotherapy, giving him a fresh ...

In a new book, the mathematical epidemiologist Adam Kucharski explains how certainty, even in math, can be an illusion. Nonfiction In a new book, the mathematical epidemiologist Adam Kucharski ...

In a heartwarming show of community spirit, the small town of Chelsea, Michigan, pulled off a literary feat worthy of its own novel. When the beloved local bookstore Serendipity Books announced it was ...

Learning something new can feel overwhelming, especially when it comes to programming. Maybe you’ve always wanted to dip your toes into coding but felt intimidated by the jargon or unsure where to ...