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

Adam Aleksic, known to his many online followers as Etymology Nerd, writes about the ways social media is changing language.

Low literacy. A drop in recreational reading. Students who can’t finish texts. A book industry of falling margins. The ...

Nearly 70% of children aged 10 already own a smartphone, unlocking access to a limitless digital universe 69% of young people ...

The seeming decline of a certain type of novelist is much discussed and debated in the literary world. But the bigger ...

Dead billionaires have piled up in modern pop culture to an almost absurd amount. Surely some Pacific Heights morgue is ...

No piece of punctuation, though, stirs people up more than the humble semicolon. Too demure to be a colon but more assertive ...

Hannah Cairo has solved the so-called Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, a problem in harmonic analysis closely linked to other ...

Shahin Alam is helping hundreds to master tech. But he felt like he was ‘living in a grave’ when typhoid first took his vision ...

The origins of this decadent dessert have sparked debate for decades, but whether it’s Australian or Kiwi, it’s seen many ...

I sat with Justice Rasheed Fawehinmi (retd), elder brother of the then recently deceased legal luminary, Chief Gani Fawehinmi ...

I usually teach summer school the second term in order to make extra money for my kids' school clothes. So, for me, on Monday, the party's over. I'll teach summer classes until the new fall semester ...