A new study by the novelist and scholar Namwali Serpell subjects the Nobel laureate’s work to rigorous inspection — with thrilling results. By Wesley Morris Two new reboots of Louisa May Alcott’s ...

In “Leaving Home,” the writer and illustrator Mark Haddon recasts a painful childhood in kaleidoscopic color. By Jeanette Winterson A young telephone company operator finds herself in the dark ...

TIOBE Index for February 2026: Top 10 Most Popular Programming Languages Your email has been sent February’s TIOBE Index shows a leaderboard that looks steady at first glance, but small shifts beneath ...

Poduri, who attends Stanford Online High School part-time and grew up in the tech-centric community of Mountain House, started coding early in life. Coding can often be a tricky task for young ...

February 1, 2026 • In The One About the Blackbird, a young boy learns to play guitar from his grandfather. And there's one song in particular that they love… January 7, 2026 • Baker & Taylor is one of ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. A book transfer moves funds between deposit accounts within the same bank, eliminating float ...

Ballantine bets big on culture writer Marjon Carlos’s memoir-in-essays, FSG’s science imprint takes a primer from mathematician Terry Tao, and more.

February 11, 2026 • The shortest month of the year is packed with highly anticipated new releases, including books from Michael Pollan, Tayari Jones and the late Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa.

An exploration of how writing systems, from ancient Chinese characters to modern alphabets, shape language, and whether users of ChatGPT can be said to be authors at all.

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