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The dog days are over, the dog days are done. The Year of the Dog is coming to an end on Tuesday, February 5—Chinese New Year!...

Looking to learn more about your emotions? Read on for the best books on emotional intelligence. What is emotional intelligence? Emotional intelligence has recently become a...

I became smitten with the work of Gretchen Rubin ten years ago. Her first book Happier at Home really spoke to me at a time when my life...

This Riot Recommendation with your favorite edge-of-your-seat mysteries is sponsored by Bookclubbish. 2019 has some truly spine-tingling suspense novels to sink your teeth into. Everything from...

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1.“Writing poetry after Auschwitz,” the sociologist Theodor Adorno proclaimed in 1951, “is barbaric.” This particular phrase has become so famous because it is both transparently false—ask...

The winners of the Andrew Carnegie medals have been announced. The prize recognizes the best fiction and nonfiction books for adult readers published in the U.S....

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If social media’s greatest contribution is democratizing communications, their greatest threat is in abetting cynicism and distrust. When platforms are infected with disinformation, making it difficult...

Whenever I talk to my friends who grew up in the US about the books they had to read in high school, I’m struck by how...