With matter-of-fact precision, “A Hymn to Life” powerfully chronicles the shock of discovering her husband’s sex crimes, and the rallying cry that followed. By Alexandra Jacobs From cinnamon rolls to ...

He will have you for dinner: what is it about an unapologetic cannibal that so captured readers and audiences? NPR's Scott Simon talks with Brian Raftery about his new book, "Hannibal Lecter: A Life." ...

In “Leaving Home,” the writer and illustrator Mark Haddon recasts a painful childhood in kaleidoscopic color. By Jeanette Winterson A young telephone company operator finds herself in the dark ...

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TIOBE Index for February 2026: Top 10 Most Popular Programming Languages Your email has been sent February’s TIOBE Index shows a leaderboard that looks steady at first glance, but small shifts beneath ...

The book club was founded in 2017 and centers books with women-led narratives Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes for both print and digital platforms. Reese ...

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An exploration of how writing systems, from ancient Chinese characters to modern alphabets, shape language, and whether users of ChatGPT can be said to be authors at all.

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