Reviews of notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

ARIEL MITROPOULOS JOINS US LIVE NOW WITH HER EXCLUSIVE REPORTING. MONICA, WE SAT DOWN WITH JONATHAN COOPER LAST WEEK. HE SAYS THIS BOOK WAS MEANT TO MAKE PEOPLE LAUGH, AND THAT NO ONE HAS EVER TOLD ...

The Vatican Publishing House published Nov. 20 a new Italian-language book by Pope Leo XIV titled The Power of the Gospel: The Christian Faith in 10 Words, a compilation of the Pontiff’s speeches and ...

For something that happens mostly alone and in silence, reading can be surprisingly intimate. Our favorite books reveal our interests, inspire the way we think, and offer storylines and fantasies we ...

JavaScript’s low bar to entry has resulted in one of the richest programming language ecosystems in the world. This month’s report celebrates the bounty, while also highlighting a recent example of ...

If you have spent time with an infant, you might recognize the scene: A child is wailing, inconsolable, and you, the parent, have to go to the bathroom. Or eat. Or attend to a pot that’s boiling over.

Language is one of the few faculties that still seems to be uniquely human. Other animals, like chimpanzees and songbirds, have developed elaborate communication systems, but none appears to convey ...

"Algospeak" by Albany native Adam Aleksic. Before he was breaking down internet language for millions of TikTok users, Adam Aleksic was just a kid growing up in Albany, fascinated by words and their ...

Rich Oxenham was working at Action on Hearing Loss to assist deaf and hard of hearing people in the United Kingdom while spending his spare time running a Dungeons & Dragons group for local teens.

Publisher Berkley is releasing the translated novels this year. By Lexy Perez Associate Editor “There wasn’t a demand for the translation in the U.S. at first. But thanks to the success of the series, ...

In a major court victory for artificial intelligence companies on Tuesday, a California federal judge sided with Anthropic, the parent company of the Claude AI chatbot, ruling copyrighted books can be ...