Some quantum cryptographers want to find ways to keep messages secret even if the rules of quantum mechanics don’t hold. The ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... The total number of books published in the U.S. in 2025 with ISBN numbers jumped 32.5% over 2024, to more than four million books, according ...

Colleen Hoover has taken another one of her works to the big screen. The author, who’s behind It Ends With Us and Regretting You, worked with another cast and crew to recreate a film adaptation of ...

J.R.R. Tolkien created the quintessential fantasy epic with The Lord of the Rings, permanently changing the trajectory of modern literature through an unprecedented dedication to world-building.

Andrew Tate does not read books. In a clip that resurfaced recently, the polarizing influencer explained why. Books, he argued, are too slow. His brain is “far too advanced” to enjoy such a ...

Books rise to the level of enduring art, I believe, when their writers take something ordinary and reintroduce it in a way that radically transforms it. The right work can make a subject that’s never ...

In April of 2023, when I was fresh out of a Ph.D. program in philosophy, I was hired as the nonfiction critic at the newly revived books section of the Washington Post. The shock to my system was ...

The relative novelty of a digital asset and means of exchange — bitcoin is, after all, a mere sixteen years old — seems to be an unending source of fascination across all strata of society.

It was the best-of times (you know, that period in December when we do the best-of lists). But it could feel like the worst of times: There’s so much to read before the year finishes! Well, there’s ...

A Book Review art director selects the book jackets that surprised him, delighted him and stayed with him this year. A Book Review art director selects the book jackets that surprised him, delighted ...

Howard A. Husock’s “The Projects” (NYU, 240 pages, $29.95), a history of public housing in America, is largely a story of failure. When Franklin Roosevelt signed the law creating the Federal Housing ...