Featuring 298 industry-first reviews of fiction, nonfiction, children’s, and YA books; also in this special International Issue: profiles of Abdulrazak Gurnah, Mayumi Inaba, Leila Boukarim, and Siri ...

By Dennis Sale IN recent columns I outlined major factors that are rapidly impacting the educational landscape and changing ...

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

Historical Present, Imagined Futures Speaker Series” conducted its final event of the academic year with renowned ...

Since the invention of the printing press, publishing has slowly evolved. 1930s business models (hello, returns) still exist. Publishers mainly operate on the East Coast. The new, venture-funded ...

As the luckless citizens of Lviv, Ukraine, endure yet another foreign invasion, Philippe Sands's book — and the ideas that ...

Tom Fisher holds the Dayton Hudson Chair in Urban Design, College of Design, University of Minnesota. Stephen Young is global executive director, the Caux Round Table for Moral Capitalism, St. Paul.

Our Future Chronicles column explores an imagined history of inventions yet to come – this time how, by the mid-21st century, ...

Jacques Cousteau emerged as perhaps the most influential 20th-century figure in deep-sea exploration and underwater filmmaking. In the 1940s, Cousteau’s co-invention of the Aqualung (SCUBA ...

But, they also opened up an entirely new area of potential invention that many were too ... was conducted by Benjamin Franklin in the 18th Century. Further work by Volta, Faraday, Ohm, and many ...

the steam turbine was invented in the 1st century AD by the mathematician and engineer Heron of Alexandria and was even described in great detail in his Pneumatica. The ancient invention was a ...

and the United States won in the 20th century using information technology, so China will win in the 21st using biology.” China designed this outcome: The U.S. is already reliant on China ...