From R. F. Kuang's The Burning God to Brandon Sanderson's Oathbringer, these are the best fantasy books that have been published in the last decade ...

A guide to walking, a look at the world’s Google searches and a deep dive into the secrets of our DNA are some of the topics tackled by the popular science books out this month ...

The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America. By Sara Franklin. Atria Books; 336 pages; $29.99 and £20 Judith Jones edited literary and culinary greats and saved Anne Frank ...

As the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of its founding in July 2026, the nation must confront a stark reality: Americans are more polarized than they’ve been in decades. Among the key ...

Our staff shared their favorite books on art of all time—from a gothic-tinged memoir by Sally Mann to a rollicking, research-rich portrait of the artist’s psyche across centuries. Gyula Benczur ...

Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America. By Sam Tanenhaus. Random House; 1,040 pages; $40 and £33 A superb biography of William F. Buckley, the most influential American journalist ...

Each year around this time, we ask the staff of Scientific American to recommend the best books they read this year. Here are the 67 new favorites and old classics that kept us turning the pages in ...

“One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things,” mused author Henry Miller in his 1957 memoir Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch. It’s true: Travel has the ...

Luc Haasbroek is a writer and videographer from Durban, South Africa. He has been writing professionally about pop culture for eight years. Luc's areas of interest are broad: he's just as passionate ...

Ruth, the impish narrator of Kate Riley’s debut novel, is born into a little and little-known Anabaptist sect in Michigan. Riley, drawing on her own experience, feels no rush to lay out the group’s ...