Java turned 30 in 2025. That's a good time to look back, but also forward.

Food is at the heart of Taiwan’s Lunar New Year holiday, with dumplings, spring rolls and tangyuan (sweet sticky rice balls) ...

It’s that time of the month again when I share some of the best new books to keep an eye out for, and there are plenty of great releases to add to your TBR (to be read) list or bookshelf in February.

2025 saw the release of so many incredible books, and I’ve already shared my roundup of the best books of 2025 so far, which included the likes of The Hunger Games prequel, Sunrise On The Reaping, ...

In this unusually eventful — mostly not in good ways — year for higher education, it’s salutary to be reminded how much good scholarly work there’s been, despite everything. As we do every year, we ...

Building an investment portfolio is a personal experience: What suits one investor may be ill-fitting for another. Factors such as risk tolerance and time horizon influence how an investor constructs ...

New year, new literary adventures. Authors Isaac Fitzgerald and Adriana Trigiani stopped by TODAY on the last day of 2025 to talk through the books they're looking forward to in the coming year. Their ...

Death and the Gardener by Georgi Gospodinov, translated from the Bulgarian by Angela Rodel (Orion, £18.99). A modest personal meditation on his father’s life and painful death, Georgi Gospodinov’s ...

Start your personal reading resolution with these visually exhilarating books. Dive into the history of crown jewels, the American West, historic fashion runways and more. If the thieves who dropped ...

From gripping thrillers, witty satires and poignant epics to captivating histories and juicy memoirs, 2025 was full of great books. Read on for 30 of our favorites. The latest from the Pulitzer ...

Wendy Cope is big in Britain, where poetry isn’t quite as sidelined from the literary mainstream as it is here in America. You can see why. Her poetry has a sense of humor, without being merely silly ...

Our favorite books this year (in no particular order) included definitive memoirs by music figures as varied as Ozzy Osbourne, Lionel Richie, and Cameron Crowe; chronicles of bands long gone and those ...