Toni Morrison, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, and Lupita Nyong'o won NAACP Image Awards.

Toni Morrison, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, and Lupita Nyong'o won NAACP Image Awards.

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Jane Goodall is writing a new book, and it sounds very . . . optimistic.

Jane Goodall is writing a new book, and it sounds very . . . optimistic.

By Corinne Segal | February 24, 2020

Elon Musk learns all the wrong lessons from Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy.

Elon Musk learns all the wrong lessons from Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy.

By Jonny Diamond | February 24, 2020

If you have £2.5 million, you can buy one of Charles Dickens'

If you have £2.5 million, you can buy one of Charles Dickens' "favourite lodging houses."

By Jessie Gaynor | February 24, 2020

Have We Lost Our Awe of the Flourishing Arctic?

Have We Lost Our Awe of the Flourishing Arctic?

Gretel Ehrlich on Yuri Rythkeu's Eulogy for the Chukchi Whale Hunt

By Gretel Ehrlich | February 24, 2020

Sylvia Plath and the Communion of Women Who Know What She Went Through

Sylvia Plath and the Communion of Women Who Know What She Went Through

Emily Van Duyne on the Lure of Charismatic, Abusive Men

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Here are the finalists for the NYPL's Helen Bernstein Award, which celebrates working journalists.

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Watch the dramatic trailer for the second season of HBO's <em>My Brilliant Friend</em>.

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Elizabethan playwright Ben Jonson once beat a murder charge by translating some Latin.

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Confuse and alarm your misbehaving kids with this 15th century guide to good behavior!

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Why I Hide From Writerly Dread in the Pages of Self-Help

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