Why humans are so good at feeling bad
What can an economist teach us about misery?I had that question in mind while reading the new book The Opposite ...
Tag: Books
It shouldn’t feel impossible to finish a book
A horror story of sorts is unfolding in the United States. It goes like this: AI has made it so ...
How owning books became everybody’s business
If your home contains more than two bookcases, you probably know the cautionary tale of Homer and Langley Collyer. After ...
The Beatles’ biggest turning points come alive in two new books
During a career that was chock-full of momentous events, The Beatles enjoyed plenty of turning points that contributed to their ...
Why not just ban all the books?
Veronica Arreola found out that a children’s book she authored was among the most banned in the United States from ...
AI is ruining children’s books
Forty-one years ago, the late singer, songwriter, and education activist Whitney Houston urged us to teach children and let them ...
What we see when we look into the eyes of a bird
On a cool April morning at the height of Washington, DC’s always brief spring, the science fiction novelist Ray Nayler ...
Could you spot an AI-written book?
However you feel about AI writing, it has a few giveaways. According to the writer Imogen West-Knights, “there’s things like ...
How fan fiction went mainstream, from Heated Rivalry to Fifty Shades of Gray
Archive of Our Own, or AO3, is one of the most popular websites in the world, with over 10 million ...
Why Easter never became a big secular holiday like Christmas
Editor’s note, April 6, 2026, 6 am ET: This story was originally published on March 29, 2018, and we’re revisiting ...
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