In his new novel, Jonathan Miles considers the complicated ethics and logistics of eliminating an invasive species. By Matt Bell Matt Bell is the author, most recently, of “Appleseed” and “Refuse to ...

With this week’s announcement of massive cuts at The Washington Post, the paper’s Book World supplement earned a dismal distinction: It may be the only newspaper book-review section to have been ...

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“Apart from education, no other industry has sidestepped the forces of digital disruption like healthcare,” writes Robert Wachter in “A Giant Leap: How AI Is Transforming Healthcare and What That ...

On Dec. 28, 1958, my father and his older brother Dick went to Yankee Stadium to watch the National Football League championship game. They must have paid about $5 each for tickets. Throw in the price ...

One morning in January 2006, Rachel Weaver, a 20-something aspiring writer who was about to start grad school in Colorado, woke up to a hurricane; except the ...

In April of 2023, when I was fresh out of a Ph.D. program in philosophy, I was hired as the nonfiction critic at the newly revived books section of the Washington Post. The shock to my system was ...

Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights has arrived with the kind of heat that cannot be contained by a single verdict. In the first wave of reviews, some critics have embraced Fennell’s high-gloss, ...

If you’ve asked for a book recommendation lately, chances are you’ve been buttonholed by some goggle-eyed person babbling about boxer shorts, dungeon levels, and a tiara-wearing Persian show cat named ...

Bad Bunny may have won album of the year at the Grammy Awards on Sunday, but he was already the biggest star in the world. In the early pages of “P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of ...

The writer is a history professor and director of the John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History at the University of Virginia. “Boss Lincoln: The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln,” by Matthew ...