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From the rise of information to liberalism and extinction, these 9 books will explain to you how the world works.

Sign up and download Grammarly for FREE: http://grammarly.com/markmansonI’ve read over 1,000 non-fiction books in my lifetime and today I’ve summarized 9 of ...

Modern life can feel too frantic for books. Use these habit-building strategies to carve out time for the joy of reading

Some authors are known for their prolific output. Far more romantic, however, is the image of the suffering author who dedicated their time to a single masterpiece. Here, we look at six authors who…

Sign up for the Smarter Faster newsletter A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people There are two ways to write a bestseller. The first is to imagine something truly…

Do you have a lot of self-help books on your reading list? This simple system helps you to read a self-help book in 90 minutes.

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Everything we learned about the publishing industry from Penguin vs. DOJ.

We looked at over 1,400 romance novel covers featured in Publishers Weekly from 2011 to 2023 and evaluated each cover based on its raunchiness (or level of undress), art style, and representation of…

Check out the Nautilus summer reading list 2024 to find out what books we loved this year and what you should read thi summer.

Greater Good’s editors pick the most thought-provoking, practical, and inspirational science books of the year.

I’ve read over 1,000 nonfiction books, and these 33 truly changed my life. Maybe they'll change yours too.

One of my favorite quotes—enough that I have it inscribed on the wall across the back of my bookstore—comes from the novelist Walter Mosley. “I’m not saying that you have to be a reader to save your…

“Our task at midlife is to be strong enough to relinquish the ego-urgencies of the first half and open ourselves to a greater wonder.”

It’s December, and so the literary internet, such as it is, is awash in best-of book lists. I cannot say that this website is not complicit in this (are we the worst? we might be the worst), …

Huxley was a very special kind of expert witness to his own unusual states of consciousness, which he actively cultivated in the service of his writing.

Many of us would like to have more time to read, but life can get in the way of picking up a book. What are strategies that actually work?

This past year was as dismaying as it was disorienting (as was the year prior, as will be the year to come). As we collectively drown in a daily deluge of disinformation it is to books that we turn…

The end of the year is approaching, the universe is expanding, and the internet is updating—right now, it is mostly updating its Best Of lists. Therefore, per Literary Hub tradition, I will now pre…

Stories of extensive evil, in which the threat is not a single villain, nor even a man-made pollution monster, but systemic structures of harm in which we are all complicit, offer tools to think th…

#1 New York Times best-selling author Mark Manson's summary of 14 best nonfiction books he thinks everyone should read.

It’s partly AI, partly a get-rich-quick scheme, and entirely bad for confused consumers.

This week, 404 Media, which is publishing some really essential writing these days and is well worth your support, featured an excellent piece on the problem librarians are facing as their ebook co…

Join TED Talks Daily Host Elise Hu as she interviews TED speakers about their latest books and delves deep into their ideas. Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt's latest book, “The Anxious Generation,”…

Mariella Rudi reviews Susanne Wedlich’s “Slime: A Natural History” and Christopher Michlig’s “File Under: Slime.”...

Looking to eat better? Here's some books to add to your shelf that helped me!

Ideas about monstrosity were fundamental to ancient and medieval debates about the nature of humanity, and the rhetoric of monstrosity was widely used to dehumanize certain groups in medieval Europe.

A new Sally Rooney, the return of le Carré’s George Smiley, plus real-life revelations from Al Pacino and Salman Rushdie ... Guardian critics pick the year’s best fiction, memoir, children’s books and…

Do you draw a blank trying to remember books you've read? Try these techniques to retain more of what you read.

Women’s presence in ‘the wild’ has always been contested, in myth, storytelling and sexist attitudes in the media that persist to this day.

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It’s a weird thing to say, but I guess I’m a professional reader. That’s really what authors are. A book is made of books. “The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading; a man will turn…

We often see ourselves as life’s main character and sometimes we are. Other times, however, we’re a side character in someone else’s story. We’re not the driving force of important events but an…

Karen Russell’s The Antidote, Helen Garner’s How to End a Story, and Torrey Peters’ Stag Dance all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. Brought to you by Book Marks,…

What can the great myths (and the summer blockbusters) tell us about peace? The writer, who has turned to fables all his life, weighs their wisdom – and considers the price he himself has paid for…

Get the simple two-step filter that I use to help me select what to read to improve my total return on invested reading time. Basically, I combine two ideas that both work together.

What should you read this month? This is your May 2024 guide to discovering the most insightful, inspiring, and transformative books on mindful productivity, creative growth, holistic ambition, and…

From classic texts to modern philosophy books for beginners, these are the best philosophy books to fill your shelves with.

Why loneliness is akin to smoking, democracy depends on bowling leagues, and how to make new friends as an adult.

As a writer at work on a book that’s taken far longer than expected, I’m interested in how, in a world that values speed, the slow writer...

Reading Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa’s encyclopedic study of magic is like stumbling into a vast cabinet of curiosities, where toad bones boil water, witches transmit misery through optical darts, and…

George Makari, director of the DeWitt Wallace Institute of Psychiatry: History, Policy and the Arts at Weill Cornell, and author of Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia hosts an ongoing s…

I read lots of books. My readers know I read lots of books. Ergo: I get asked for book recommendations all the damn time.

My parents are from Cuba and Poland. Growing up, mom and dad hardly ever talked about their pasts before coming to the United States; I only knew how they arrived, and more specifically where: in N…

We live in anxious times. But there is a long tradition of philosophical thought that addresses the problem of anxiety.

Last week, The New York Times Book Review published a list of the “100 Best Books of the 21st Century.” (Well, so far, obviously. Why not just call it the best books of the last 25 year…

The long read: Andrew Wylie is agent to an extraordinary number of the planet’s biggest authors. His knack for making highbrow writers very rich helped to define a literary era – but is his reign now…

For the Outdoor Adventurer: The hiker, the camper, the thrill-seeker. You have a Nalgene bottle covered in stickers and know the difference between all the different water-sport paddles. You’re alw…

Moments of great physical upheaval—pregnancy, puberty, illness, athletic training, weight fluctuations, aging, transition—can be accompanied by great revelations.

David speaks with Neville Medhora, an expert copywriter, best-selling author of "This book will teach you how to write better", and founder of Copywriting Course and SwipeFile.com. Neville never set…

Why do public intellectuals condescend to their readers?