A friend’s mother once told me that for a couple of years in the 1980s – as the Conservatives were waging war on the miners and she spent late nights at Marxist-feminist... Read more »
In exploring the physics and geometry of the universe, Stephen Hawking became a world-renowned pioneer of black hole theory, writing the bestselling book A Brief History of Time, which has sold more... Read more »
Jenny Erpenbeck wrote the pieces collected in this compact yet kaleidoscopic book for a column in the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung; published in German in 2009, they now appear in an English... Read more »
Andrew Pippos’s debut novel Lucky’s charmed readers with its fusion of Greek tragedy and multigenerational heft. Five years later, he has navigated the notoriously difficult expectations around second novels with aplomb, delivering... Read more »
The number of Americans who read for pleasure has fallen by 40%, according to a new study. Researchers at the University of Florida and University College London have found that between 2003... Read more »
‘Deeply concerning’: reading for fun in the US has fallen by 40%, new study says Aug 20 2025 The number of Americans who read for pleasure has fallen by 40%, according to... Read more »
“To have chosen such a life, as opposed to having been drugged or crimped or hoaxed aboard, was almost defiant in its sense of alienation,” Geoffrey Wolff writes in his biography of... Read more »
Can anything new be said about the second world war? Unexpectedly the answer is yes. Here are just a few of the surprising facts that I learned from this revelatory book. The... Read more »
Study Illuminates the Structural Features of Memory Formation at the Cellular and Subcellular Levels
NIH-funded study uses cutting-edge imaging techniques to reconstruct features underlying learning and memory in the mouse brain March 20, 2025 • Media Advisory What: In a study supported by the National Institutes... Read more »