Author Tim O'Brien trained for the Catholic priesthood before becoming a primary school teacher, then a residential social worker and finally a police officer before retiring. In 2024 he published ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. The phrase Pillars of Creation became popular in 1995 when it was used to describe a striking deep space photograph taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The ...

Jonathan Hickman has a reputation for being the best writer in comics, and Ultimate Spider-Man #16 is an example of why. Gwen Stacy is something of a controversial character in recent years. She’s ...

With folk traditions and sui generis prose, Amos Tutuola enthralled readers with his magic realist novel “The Palm-Wine Drinkard.” By Anderson Tepper Anderson Tepper is curator of international ...

Cease-Fire With Kurdish-Led Force U.S. Troops in Syria A Country in Ruins The Assads’ Luxurious Exile Assad’s Enforcers Advertisement Supported by Nonfiction The journalist Tim Weiner investigates the ...

Margaret Atwood is an indefatigable time traveler. The prolific Canadian author, perhaps best known for “The Handmaid’s Tale” and its phenomenally successful Hulu series adaptation, has written 17 ...

What began as a cozy nook on the corner of the internet, has quickly transformed into a global phenomenon. As of 2025, #BookTok has accumulated 370 billion views, with over 52 million creations ...

The meeting place of facts, ego, ignorance and politics typically is a messy arena as Tim Weiner illustrates over and over in this powerful account of the Central Intelligence Agency actions since the ...