Books

From the rise of information to liberalism and extinction, these 9 books will explain to you how the world works.

Modern life can feel too frantic for books. Use these habit-building strategies to carve out time for the joy of reading

Some authors are known for their prolific output. Far more romantic, however, is the image of the suffering author who dedicated their time to a single masterpiece. Here, we look at six authors who…

Do you have a lot of self-help books on your reading list? This simple system helps you to read a self-help book in 90 minutes.

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We looked at over 1,400 romance novel covers featured in Publishers Weekly from 2011 to 2023 and evaluated each cover based on its raunchiness (or level of undress), art style, and representation of…

Huxley was a very special kind of expert witness to his own unusual states of consciousness, which he actively cultivated in the service of his writing.

Many of us would like to have more time to read, but life can get in the way of picking up a book. What are strategies that actually work?

The end of the year is approaching, the universe is expanding, and the internet is updating—right now, it is mostly updating its Best Of lists. Therefore, per Literary Hub tradition, I will now pre…

Stories of extensive evil, in which the threat is not a single villain, nor even a man-made pollution monster, but systemic structures of harm in which we are all complicit, offer tools to think th…

Mariella Rudi reviews Susanne Wedlich’s “Slime: A Natural History” and Christopher Michlig’s “File Under: Slime.”...

Ideas about monstrosity were fundamental to ancient and medieval debates about the nature of humanity, and the rhetoric of monstrosity was widely used to dehumanize certain groups in medieval Europe.

Do you draw a blank trying to remember books you've read? Try these techniques to retain more of what you read.

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It’s a weird thing to say, but I guess I’m a professional reader. That’s really what authors are. A book is made of books. “The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading; a man will turn…

What can the great myths (and the summer blockbusters) tell us about peace? The writer, who has turned to fables all his life, weighs their wisdom – and considers the price he himself has paid for…

Get the simple two-step filter that I use to help me select what to read to improve my total return on invested reading time. Basically, I combine two ideas that both work together.

From classic texts to modern philosophy books for beginners, these are the best philosophy books to fill your shelves with.

Reading Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa’s encyclopedic study of magic is like stumbling into a vast cabinet of curiosities, where toad bones boil water, witches transmit misery through optical darts, and…

The long read: Andrew Wylie is agent to an extraordinary number of the planet’s biggest authors. His knack for making highbrow writers very rich helped to define a literary era – but is his reign now…

Why do public intellectuals condescend to their readers?