The New Yorker’s editors and critics choose this year’s essential reads in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.

I read over 60 books a year, and after testing the latest Kindle models, here is the one that I recommend the most.

The text is now best known for introducing “Pascal’s Law” or “Principle,” that any change of pressure in an enclosed incompressible fluid (like water) is transmitted equally to all points within the ...

A hot dog day is a special day. It’s an icon of summer, a hallmark of long, lazy weekends, a souvenir of childhood. Every time I eat a hot dog, I’m thrown back to warm memories: my parents grilling in ...

Explore the top 10 poker books, covering GTO, mindset, bankroll strategy, and pro-level tactics that will help you improve your own game.

Though the books on this year’s list are a varied group, with wildly different approaches to plot, tone and style, they’re ...

Jeffrey Brown talked with Maureen Corrigan, book critic for NPR’s Fresh Air, and author Ann Patchett about their top picks ...

With traditional publishing cooling on historicals right now, self-published authors like Richards are filling the breach.

Can you chip in? As an independent nonprofit, the Internet Archive is fighting for universal access to quality information. We build and maintain all our own systems, but we don’t charge for access, ...

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