In keeping with our annual tradition, we asked three of our critics for their favorite books of the last year. Between them, they chose 15 books, three of them reissues, and the majority fiction. The ...

Overviews Explore the best NLP books of 2025 to master AI, ML, and deep learning concepts.From classics to modern guides, ...

A boy unearths a treasure trove of adjectives, and a strange word discovered by a scholar becomes an overnight sensation. From “A Chest Full of Words.”Credit...Rebecca Gugger and Simon Röthlisberger ...

The written word has a lot to answer for. From the moment Johannes Gutenberg introduced his marvellous printing press ...

Megan C. Reynolds takes on the biggest linguistic battle of our age. By Marisa Meltzer Marisa Meltzer is the author of “Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss’s Glossier.” When ...

Matthew Burgess and Doug Salati met on a blind date. "We share the same agent," explains Burgess. "She said, 'You need to meet this client of mine.'" Over coffee in Brooklyn, they discovered that they ...