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.

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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 ...

Thirty years ago today, Netscape Communications and Sun Microsystems issued a joint press release announcing JavaScript, an object scripting language designed for creating interactive web applications ...

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 ...

For three years, LAist has turned to local booksellers and librarians for their favorite picture book recommendations. This year, we wanted to curate recommendations for a wider swath of young readers ...

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 ...

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 ...