The details of Elizebeth Smith Friedman’s remarkable career sound a bit outlandish when you list them all together: cracked ...

D-Day was the turning point of World War II, but victory in Normandy began long before June 6, 1944. Behind the scenes, ...

For over six centuries, the Voynich Manuscript has resisted every attempt at translation. Cryptographers, linguists, codebreakers — even modern AI — have all failed. Some say it’s Hebrew. Others say ...

In April of 2023, when I was fresh out of a Ph.D. program in philosophy, I was hired as the nonfiction critic at the newly revived books section of the Washington Post. The shock to my system was ...

When life gets really hectic, sitting quietly with a book can feel like an impossible luxury. And when does a smartphone-mediated world feel less than hectic? Any shred of free time is too easy to ...

See which books are being turned into movies or TV shows this year and read the original versions before tuning in! 2026 just might be the year of the page-to-screen adaptation! With on-screen ...

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It has been two years since Phoenix Suns shooting guard Devin Booker's first signature Nike basketball shoe launched in extremely limited numbers at Art Basel. After dropping in every style imaginable ...

Another year, another stack of great books to read. Jeffrey Brown talked with Maureen Corrigan, book critic for NPR’s Fresh Air, and author Ann Patchett about their top picks this year. The Loneliness ...

A New Zealand book competition dropped two of a publisher’s books because they had A.I.-generated covers. The publisher and the designer pushed back. By Jin Yu Young Reporting from Seoul One book ...

Over 3,700 unique books were banned during the 2024-2025 school year, more than double the number of titles PEN America tracked in the 2021-2022 school year when it began counting. The nonprofit, ...

The most commonly banned books in U.S. schools include LGBTQ titles, international bestsellers, teen romantasy novels and a 1962 classic, according to a new report that compares modern-day censorship ...