In his new book 'A World Appears,' journalist Michael Pollan explores the mysteries of the human brain — and whether computers could ever catch up.

Red Book I #4 hits stores Wednesday with the series finale tackling China's Xiaoshan Airport UFO incident. Cover-ups never end well.

How would colonizing Mars alter us physically and mentally? Would permanent residence on the red planet make us somehow less human?

With this week’s announcement of massive cuts at The Washington Post, the paper’s Book World supplement earned a dismal distinction: It may be the only newspaper book-review section to have been ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... After weeks of rumors about impending layoffs, employees at the Washington Post were informed Wednesday morning that the Jeff Bezos–owned ...

An 11th-century monk mapped pitches onto the human hand when directing his choir—unlocking a new connection between the eye and the ear. Review by Sarah L. Kaufman ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

There have always been ghosts in George Saunders’ fiction, going back to the revenants of a murdered family that haunt the beleaguered narrator of his breakout novella, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline. In ...

The shades are gathering again for George Saunders. In 2017, when the celebrated short-story writer published his first novel, “Lincoln in the Bardo,” ghosts and grievers swarmed the Oak Hill Cemetery ...

1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History and How it Shattered a Nation. By Andrew Ross Sorkin. Viking. 592 pages. $35. In March 1929, President Herbert Hoover proclaimed in his inaugural ...

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Interested in teaching the younger generation about those things called "books"? Have little (or not-so-little) ones who are ready to broaden their reading horizons? Below you can find tried-and-true ...