Python’s Kiss” collects a baker’s dozen stories, nine of which have previously been published in The New Yorker and elsewhere ...

Karpathy proposes something simpler and more loosely, messily elegant than the typical enterprise solution of a vector ...

The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner just published her first book of short stories in two decades, ‘Python’s ...

In my Boston Globe review of Louise Erdrich’s 2016 novel “LaRose,” I described her as “an artist of the liminal.” “Python’s Kiss,” Erdrich’s new collection of stories written over 20 years, testifies ...

These are challenging times by any metric, but here’s something that’s also true: 2026 is shaping up to be a great year for books. Some of our most talented writers are delivering novels, nonfiction ...

In a hard year—and when, recently, have we had one we’d consider easy?—books can be a lifeline and a balm, a place to retreat and regain our grounding. Among the many entertaining, delightful, ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Plato and Aristotle in discussion, 1437, by Luca della Robbia (ca 1400-1482), marble tile, depicts two of the greatest philosophers, who wrote two of the all-time best philosophy books. Philosophy ...

A man checked out dozens of books on Jewish history and other marginalized topics from a public library in a heavily Jewish Cleveland suburb before filming himself apparently setting fire to them, ...

What's in a name? Jenna Bush Hager's May 2025 Read With Jenna book club pick tries to answer the age-old question. “The Names” by Florence Knapp, publishing on May 6, follows a mother named Cora, who ...

If you're a fan of Wordle, Connections, Spelling Bee and other New York Times games and puzzles, a new book may have you excitedly reaching for your thinking cap. "Puzzle Mania," a collection edited ...

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