Who Are These People Who Refuse to Read?
Inspired by their tech heroes, never-readers think books are a waste of time
What Can Medieval Monks Teach Us About Concentration?
Talking distraction with the author of “The Wandering Mind”
Relive the Early Days of Aviation in John Lancaster's "The Great Air Race"
In 1919, the nation's best aviators embarked on a daring competition
How Prince Harry Became the Most Annoying Man in America
Imagine if complaining about your family was your only marketable skill?
Did a Romance Novelist Fake Her Own Death?
An especially surreal literary scandal
What Was It Like to Edit J.D. Salinger?
A candid array of correspondence emerges
The Novel That Inspired a Classic Baseball Movie Was Almost Lost Forever
The long road to "For Love of the Game"
Apple Is Controversially Debuting a Line of AI-Voiced Audiobooks
Some publishers are upset by the loss of human narrators, although the tech may expand the burgeoning audiobook market
The 10 Books You Should Be Reading This January
Some espionage, some architecture and some creepy tales for the colder months
The Best Movies, TV, Books and Music for January
Jason Segel and Harrison Ford are “Shrinking.” Plus, a new doc celebrates yacht rock.
Classic Detective Stories and Influential Science Fiction Entered the Public Domain This Year
Turns out 1927 was a big year for creative work
BookTok's Latest Sensation is an Experimental Mystery From 1934
Only a handful of people have solved it correctly
Home Mixology Is Too Complex. This Book Wants to Fix That.
“Raising the Bar” offers up practical and delicious cocktails for the home bartender, using the bottles you already own
The 10 Best Books of 2022
From satirical science fiction to an incisive look at the art world
M.F.K. Fisher Had a Huge Impact on How We Think About Food. A New Film Explores Why.
"The Art of Eating: The Life of M.F.K. Fisher" explores the writer's life and times
"Empire of Ice and Stone” Outlines One of the Most Disastrous Expeditions in Polar History
The wooden-hulled Karluk departed Canada for the Arctic Ocean with Captain Bob Bartlett at the helm in 1913