The science journalist and author Ed Yong likes to joke that during the first wave of Covid-19 in 2020, the impact and reach of his reporting...
For Kelsey McKinney, the author of the new book, “You Didn’t Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip,” spreading a good story occupied a...
THEORY & PRACTICE, by Michelle de Kretser In the 1980s, an intellectual revolution took hold on college campuses, spreading, this newspaper reported at the time, “like...
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | How to Listen The screenwriter Peter Straughan has become adept at taking well known — and beloved —...
Good news for fans of everyone’s favorite hapless British diarist: Bridget Jones is back. The wearer of short skirts, smoker of endless cigarettes and romancer of...
Maria Teresa Horta, a Portuguese feminist writer who helped shatter her conservative country’s strictures on women, died on Feb. 4 at her home in Lisbon. She...
If you asked me to make a list of children’s book topics that have the potential to go horribly wrong, love would be right at the...
Since I’ve written four legal thrillers, you won’t be surprised to learn that I also love to read them. I use the term “legal thriller” in...
Several vignettes stand out. Keane cites a colleague, Scott Stonington, a professor of anthropology and practicing physician, who did fieldwork with Thai farmers some two decades...
Every now and again some starry-eyed optimist tries to craft an all-time best-of romance canon, and the gods laugh and make popcorn for the ensuing discourse...
