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“What are the top sci-fi books?” is a question I’ve heard more than once from someone looking for a guide to the best of such a...

The premise of Mystery Science Theater 3000 is simple: a couple of mad scientists keep shooting their low-level employees—first Joel, then Mike—into space and forcing them to watch...

When you want to escape to another world through reading, Hogwarts, Panem, and Narnia aren’t your only options. Straight-up realistic fiction—no magic, no Sci-Fi—can sweep you...

Despite being a child that did not agree with being naughty, Where the Wild Things Are became one of my favorite books. From Max in his...

This giveaway is sponsored by Oxford University Press. Over the course of a generation, algorithms have gone from mathematical abstractions to powerful mediators of daily life....

Sponsored by Audible. THERE ARE FEW THINGS IN this world more breathtaking than a grand, lovely library. Whether it’s a sprawling monument to modern architecture or a...

The first three novels of Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet—Autumn, Winter, and now Spring—are constructed not as linear stories, but as literary puzzles. To figure them out...

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