Distracted by Books and Dragons

Larry McMurtry in Hollywood. His novels became source material for movies that reinscribed the very myths of the West that he had sought to undo

The Constitution Is Not a Shield for Foreign Terrorists

The Nautilus Reading List of Science Biographies

Dead Poets Day

A Grim Diagnosis, but New Science Is Rewriting the Story of Pancreatic Cancer

Fourth Circuit Upholds Injunction Against Disclosing Names of Perceived Afghan Collaborators

The Ancient Roots of the Crab Walk

Injunction Against Publicly Identifying Pseudonymous Litigants Is Content-Based Prior Restraint,

Here’s a Better Alternative to Mamdani’s Free Buses

The new AI model that’s alarming Washington

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

AI-produced books have begun to flood Amazon, whether coloring books or derivative novels. What they’re missing, of course, is an artistic ego

Why do so many authors and critics remain attached to “literary fiction” in our commercialized landscape of books?

That books are disappearing along with our capacities for complex and rational thought has become a ubiquitous belief. Doesn't mean it's true

Iowa Law Barring Books with "Descriptions or Visual Depictions of a Sex Act" from School Libraries Upheld

Bolster civil discourse and the Great Books, or purge “commies”? The right is at war with itself over how to reform the university

As Francis Bacon put it in 1597: “Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested”

Laid off from The Washington Post, the critic Ron Charles turns to books that ask a fundamental question: Do I matter?

Oliver Sacks and the art of annotation. His marginalia spanned 10,000 books, the chronicle of a life well read

Books and screens

A Room For Books