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This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here.One of the more common…

The amount of Americans who read for pleasure has fallen by 40%, according to a new study.Researchers at the University of Florida and University College London…

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here.The most recent issue of…

Jon Lee Anderson is “not done with Afghanistan”, despite having reported on it for more than 40 years, through invasions, occupations, the rise and fall of…

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here.During the coronavirus pandemic, I…

Alex de Minaur admits it wasn’t pretty, but he has booked his spot in the final of the Washington Open after demolishing Frenchman Corentin Moutet. In…

Authors have until the end of August to opt out. SvetaZi/iStock/Getty Images Johns Hopkins University Press (JHUP) is the latest academic publisher to announce plans to…

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. Andrea Gibson wasn’t, in…

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Plato and Aristotle in discussion, 1437, by Luca della Robbia (ca 1400-1482), marble tile, depicts … More two of the greatest philosophers, who wrote two of…