Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What We Can Do About It’ by Cory Doctorow. Cory Doctorow “certainly ...

Every week, critics and editors at The New York Times Book Review pick the most interesting and notable new releases, from ...

Madison Schramm argues that democratic leaders see wars with dictatorships not just as conflicts of material interests but as wider struggles for the preservation of liberal democracy.

Research shows that social connection improves health and well-being. The challenge of isolation intensifies with age.

In “Morbidly Curious,” the behavioral scientist Coltan Scrivner takes a look at our addiction to the gory, the morbid and the ...

It’s not infrequently said that Adam Smith “invented” capitalism with his publication The Wealth of Nations, but the real ...

It all happens so fast. Seems like 20 minutes after something occurs, another event takes its place; even this morning’s news already has dust on it. It feels like a race you didn’t enter, in a world ...

In a world of dwindling reviews, the author Lydia Davis’s new work charts a more serendipitous path to reading.

When you pick up a Vermont shepherd’s memoir, you might expect it to be everything we associate today with the word pastoral — leisurely and restorative, like wandering through a meadow full of ...

There are few modern literary careers as strangely shaped as Harper Lee’s. One novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, became the most widely read American book of the 20th century; what followed was not a ...

Every generation faces a challenge that defines its future. For ours, it is financial literacy.According to research, about ...

Do you know the one about the Jewish guy and the Muslim Turk? They gang up on this Christian friar and strangle him. Then they take him into the street and prop him up on a staff, as if he were alive ...