Laurent de Brunhoff, author of Babar children’s books, dies at 98 Mar 23 2024 Babar author Laurent de Brunhoff, who revived his father’s popular picture-book series about an elephant-king and presided over... Read more »
Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize–winning psychologist and author, dies at 90 Mar 27 2024 Psychologist and bestselling author Daniel Kahneman, whose research on how decision-making and biases can impact economics earned him a... Read more »
Harvard removes binding of human skin from book in its library Mar 27 2024 The decision to find a “respectful final disposition” for human remains used for a 19th-century book comes amid... Read more »
Barnes & Noble workers plan union drive at largest US bookstore chain Apr 01 2024 Workers at America’s largest chain of bookstores are gearing up for a nationwide union drive after six... Read more »
In January 2002, during his State of the Union address, President George W Bush said that in “four short months” the US had “rallied a great coalition, captured, arrested and rid the... Read more »
Deirdre Madden, Kathryn Scanlan and Hanif Abdurraqib are among the eight recipients of this year’s Windham-Campbell prizes, worth $175,000 (£140,000) each. Madden, who is from Northern Ireland, was recognised for her eight... Read more »
Transcript DEBORAH KRAT: Welcome everybody. We will get started in five minutes. Just waiting patiently for everybody to come in. Again, we’ll start in about five minutes, right at the top of... Read more »
Each year in India more than two million people fall sick with tuberculosis (TB), an infectious, airborne, and potentially deadly lung disease. The country accounts for almost 30 percent of all TB... Read more »