Readings that the podcast’s guests say shaped their thinking.

What are three popular tropes that romance novels use? Jennifer Harlan, a New York Times books editor, recommends three romance novels that show off those tropes at their best. An author of books ...

Ann Shepphird writes from what she knows, weaving what she wonders, imagines, maybe secretly wishes, into fiction. The former ...

Two new books, “The Sirens’ Call” by Hayes and “Superbloom” by Carr, argue that our capacity for attention and connection has been devastated by the digital age “Elita” is a novel ...

NASA has directed a set of science committees to pause their work, citing recent Trump administration executive orders, a move that canceled one meeting and put others on hold.

Gripping tale of the lines on which espionage meets the Vatican's priests. The Daily Mail Books department chooses their favourite fiction of the century. When 50 American hostages were released ...

Jeff Stein is the White House economics reporter for The Washington Post. Since joining The Washington Post in November 2017, he has covered the Republican tax law; the government shutdown; and ...

Flops, every one of them. Hopeless, cringing disasters that failed so badly, it was physically uncomfortable - no, not the candidates on The Apprentice, but Lord Sugar's jokes.

Will there be elections?" However, when it comes to upholding women's and minority rights, Hawach is somewhat hopeful after al-Shaara's promise to "work on an inclusive transitional government ...

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