Eighteen books by Princeton professors have been selected for inclusion in 2025 year-end “best of” lists — in some cases, multiple lists. The accolades celebrate faculty novels and short stories, ...

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, ...

Each year around this time, we ask the staff of Scientific American to recommend the best books they read this year. Here are the 67 new favorites and old classics that kept us turning the pages in ...

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 ...

Posts circulating on social media claim Mamdani is expected to introduce new rules when he becomes New York Mayor in 2026 that will require all public elementary schools in the state to learn Arabic ...

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 ...

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 ...

New Delhi: The first book in Arabic about the life and poetry of the great Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib, titled Ghalib: A’zam Shu’ara’il-Hind (Ghalib, the Greatest Poet of India), was released here on ...

The Narrative Brain: The Stories Our Neurons Tell by Fritz Breithaupt. Yale University Press, 2025 ($35) Humans are storytelling ­animals. We narrate our lives as soon as we can speak and populate ...

We speak of America’s political “fracturing” and “polarization” as if these are new things under the sun. In fact, as Yuval Levin reminds us in “American Covenant,” the whole point of the U.S.