A physician and best-selling author with a reputation for his focus on healing in an era where technology often overwhelms the human side of medicine made his debut at Calcutta’s annual tryst with ...

Most of us have our ideologies firmly rooted in the binaries of faith and reason. But real life is never quite that black-and-white. When things in life don’t make sense, we tend to hold on to beliefs ...

A new memoir by the tech mogul recounts a boyhood steeped in old-fashioned, analog pastimes as well as precocious feats of coding. By Jennifer Szalai It’s among the more playful matters on his ...

If you've just finished watching the very first season of the magical Percy Jackson and the Olympians, you'll no doubt be wondering how and where you can get your hands on the books. After all ...

Raise shields, red alert — we’re going to try and put all the Star Trek movies in order. And we do mean try. When they were focused on the Original Series era, the Star Trek movies were so ...

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

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George Oppen’s “From a Photograph” turns a wintry snapshot into a moving meditation on parenthood and the passage of time. Our critic A.O. Scott shows you what he loves about it. By A.O ...

In this new book by Professor John S. Tregoning he gives you the tips and tricks to get you as close to living forever as is humanly possible. The deaths of Abraham Lincoln, JFK and Natasha ...

The latest book in the phenomenally popular romance-fantasy Empyrean Series finds Violet Sorrengail leaving Basgiath War College, where she’s been studying to be a dragon rider, and venturing ...