It is a courageous soul who would take on the challenge of writing a Life (even a partial Life) of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

Recipes can take many forms, from detailed sets of instructions to simple lists. Stuck to my refrigerator is a carefully ...

Alex Clark and Lucy Dallas look forward to 2025’s most tempting reading, plan a Jane Austen road trip and resolve to sit up straight.

Brave New Words by Salman Khan, the founder of the American non-profit online education company Khan Academy, is an advert for its new AI teaching and learning assistant Khanmigo, recently released in ...

From time to time pessimists declare the literary novel dead and drowned. Currently such pundits distrust its capacity for survival in our tough, market-driven publishing climate, in which sales ...

“I guess I’m like a poet/philosopher/private eye?” is how Riv del Rio describes himself to a prospective client in Every Arc Bends Its Radian, the latest novel by Sergio De La Pava. Riv, a private ...

Paul Valéry has sometimes been dismissed by readers as obscure, dry and overly theoretical, but there can be little doubt that he produced some of the greatest poems in the French language. Take “The ...

One of my school students, Sam, comes to my Monday English clinic to work on his close reading. He expresses frustration at the process, which seems unnecessarily mysterious to him. He knows that ...

In Armen Davoudian’s first book, the shadow of history hangs over the present and the shadow of violence over love: he rhymes “te amo” with “ammo” (one of many such startling contrasts) and ends one ...