The Voynich manuscript has long been shorthand for the unsolved and the unknowable, a late medieval codex filled with looping ...

Every January, Americans swear this will be the year they finally change. Lose weight. Fix a relationship. Stop ...

Author Matt Greene on his new dystopian novel 'The Definitions' about life after a virus wipes people's memories.

Ask him how it all began, and he remembers the ice. It was a bitter morning in January, 1982, when Bernard Cathomas, aged thirty-six, carefully picked his way up a slippery, sloping Zurich street. His ...

The Vatican Publishing House published Nov. 20 a new Italian-language book by Pope Leo XIV titled The Power of the Gospel: The Christian Faith in 10 Words, a compilation of the Pontiff’s speeches and ...

Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since Aristotle, who wrote that humanity was “the animal that has language.” ...

Over 3,700 unique books were banned during the 2024-2025 school year, more than double the number of titles PEN America tracked in the 2021-2022 school year when it began counting. The nonprofit, ...

Pattern Group (PTRN) is expected to price its IPO after the market closes on Monday. Reports indicate the IPO has seen strong early demand. The IPO consists of 21.43 million shares, half offered by ...

NBC News’ Hallie Jackson interviewed Jeffrey Epstein survivor Liz Stein after the so-called birthday book filled with a collection of messages for the late convicted sex offender’s 50th birthday was ...

Columbus, Ohio — After the death in July of their father, Dan Pelzer, at the age of 92, John and Marci Pelzer discovered something extraordinary in his things — a very long list of every book he had ...

Language is one of the few faculties that still seems to be uniquely human. Other animals, like chimpanzees and songbirds, have developed elaborate communication systems, but none appears to convey ...

"Algospeak" by Albany native Adam Aleksic. Before he was breaking down internet language for millions of TikTok users, Adam Aleksic was just a kid growing up in Albany, fascinated by words and their ...