What is consciousness? It is one of the most perplexing questions in science. You would expect our intimacy with it to give us a leg up in understanding how it works, but this has proven to be more of ...

Three new books apply an economist’s lens — and language — to some of our most unruly phenomena, including war and nature itself. By Nick Summers Nick Summers is the former Sunday Business editor at ...

We’re not supposed to read too much IRL significance into the story of Petra, the author who’s the heroine of bestselling novelist Colleen Hoover’s new thriller Woman Down. This, even though Petra, ...

Minneapolis — On occasion, what a book club needs most is for one person to tell another person to shut up. That’s when a book club facilitator could help. “When a club wants a facilitator, it’s ...

Have you heard of Orange County? It’s where the good Republicans go before they die. It should come as no surprise that Orange County, a beloved county for the grandfather of modern American ...

This is a book review in two parts. The first is about the ideas presented in The Neural Mind: How brains think, which are fascinating. The second is about the actual experience of reading it. The ...

Getting good at LeetCode Java can feel like a puzzle sometimes, right? You see all these problems, and you’re not sure where to even start. This guide is here to break down the common approaches and ...

The new Forgotten Realms books are a great product if you’re a longtime Faerûn fanatic like myself. However, they also bring to light symptoms of a new design philosophy that supports Dungeons & ...

Generative AI has made Amazon’s knockoff problem more inescapable than ever. Authors tell Rolling Stone it’s leaving them frustrated—and the internet worse in the process “The problem with these slop ...

Washington Examiner Senior Writer Joe Concha mocked former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre for the “hard” accomplishment of selling just over 20,000 copies of her book, Independent, on ...

In a new book, the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker argues that an awareness that everyone knows what you know is a powerful driver of human social life. By Dennis Duncan Dennis Duncan teaches ...

Thunderbolts*, Superman and The Fantastic Four: First Steps did everything right, so what went wrong with this year’s comic book movie blockbusters at the box office? Hollywood has spent the past half ...