Explore Gibson's Paradox, the historical link between interest rates and price levels, understood through a century of data. Discover why it remains debated.

Nonfiction and Y.A. are hurting, but genre fiction and the Good Book are booming. Here’s how book sales looked in 2025. By Elizabeth A. Harris and Alexandra Alter This year brought more blockbuster ...

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains major spoilers for plot points in “The Housemaid,” now in theaters. For fans of Freida McFadden’s thriller novel “The Housemaid,” watching the Lionsgate adaptation ...

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s storybook romance is getting the storybook treatment. The couple’s relationship and engagement will be chronicled in a new interactive children’s book called “Taylor & ...

James Marshall’s “George and Martha” books are witty and complex in their depictions of transformative friendship. By Hannah Kingsley-Ma There are few books my nephew and I agree on. This is because ...

Books can be a refuge from (waves arms) all this, even when they take you deeper into the darkness of 2025. There is a grace in the relationship between book and reader, with nothing but your eyes and ...

In this prodigiously researched epic, Torigian details the life of Xi Zhongxun—the father of China’s current leader, Xi Jinping—to explain the history of the Chinese Communist Party. Along the way, ...

Artificial intelligence is consuming enormous amounts of energy, but researchers at the University of Florida have built a chip that could change everything by using light instead of electricity for a ...

Banned Books Week has begun and new titles are dominating this year's top challenged list. Banned Books Week is Oct. 5-11 and this year's theme is, "Censorship Is so 1984. Read for Your Rights." The ...

PEN America's report found 6,870 instances of book bans in 2024 and 2025. Books bans in public schools have become a "new normal" in the U.S., escalating since 2021, according to one advocacy group.

A collection of personal notes penned for Jeffrey Epstein's 50th birthday offers a portrait of the convicted child sex offender through crude drawings, images and messages filled with sexual content ...