This very special live recording of World Book Club in Paris features celebrated French novelist Laurent Binet in ...

Heart­bro­ken rel­a­tives of 17-year-old school­boy Gabriel Nel­son found clo­sure yes­ter­day af­ter his body was re­cov­ered, two days af­ter he drowned at Grand La­goon, Ma­yaro.

French art historian Thomas Schlesser is still adapting to life as a best-selling global author having written one of the ...

Ernesto Portillo Jr. Oct 22, 2016 Oct 22, 2016 Updated Oct 19, 2022 In O’odham the word for goat is siwat and ce:kol is squirrel. The word for brain is ‘uag. Wanna know the O’odham word for pencil? It ...

Editor’s note: This work is part of AI Watchdog, The Atlantic’s ongoing investigation into the generative-AI industry. On Tuesday, researchers at Stanford and Yale revealed something that AI companies ...

Marking its 30th anniversary on Thursday, the world’s most popular programming language faces a bitter ongoing custody battle rather than a celebration. Creators and community leaders are stepping up ...

I got a notification the other day: “Your screen time was up 261% last week, for an average of 7 hours, 15 minutes a day.” If you know me, you'll know this can only mean one thing. I’m reading again.

It’s a complaint many algebra teachers are familiar with, as more letters and symbols are introduced with progressively harder courses in mathematics. But why did the plus symbol emerge as the ...

Amazon announced on Thursday the launch of Kindle Translate, an AI-powered translation service designed for authors using Kindle Direct Publishing to broaden their reach. The service initially ...

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 ...

When I was six, my maiden aunt Eva gave me a first edition of “The World Is Round,” by Gertrude Stein. Eva, who worked in a used bookstore, was the only bohemian in our family, and she revered Stein.

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 ...