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

Two comic books originally sold on US newsstands for just 10 cents have sold for $13 million.

It started with a meme, back in 2019: a collage calling out trans people who wrote some pretty nasty tweets at Rowling for ...

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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 ...

The AI-powered ‘Ask this Book’ is a spoiler-free reading assistant. The AI-powered ‘Ask this Book’ is a spoiler-free reading assistant. is a news editor with over a decade’s experience in journalism ...

Move over Spotify Wrapped: Boston Public Library unveiled its year-end wrap-up lists on Monday morning, including the top 10 checked out books of 2025. In addition to looking back at the year’s top ...

Ask him how it all began, and he remembers the ice. It was a bitter morning in January, 1982, when Bernard Cathomas, aged thirty-six, carefully picked his way up a slippery, sloping Zurich street. His ...

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.

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 ...

For Martha Barnette, griping about grammatical pet peeves is one of the least interesting ways to talk about language. Instead, the co-host of the radio show “A Way with Words” says she’d rather think ...

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 ...