Novels by Edwidge Danticat and Valeria Luiselli are among the books up for the fiction prize, while Karl Ove Knausgaard’s latest is a contender for the translated literature prize.

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The author of Blink brings his exquisite writing and storytelling chops to a subject he just doesn’t understand

Beta Pictoris b appears to have an aurora caused by a powerful magnetic field. If confirmed, it would be the first such field known outside our solar system.

The president’s former press secretary has learned all the right lessons, but how come it took him so long?

As researchers around the world begin work on the next U.N. climate assessment, fears are growing that the Trump administration could meddle with critical U.S. climate data. In response, scientists…

Voters in the US are increasingly rejecting artificial intelligence and the billionaires getting obscenely rich off of it.

Texas tops list with 8,100 bans while Stephen King is again most banned author, PEN America finds

The justices heard arguments in a lawsuit brought by Boulder, Colorado, seeking to hold Exxon Mobil and Suncor Energy liable for the impacts of climate change.

A psychoanalytic history of the sea.

How steel from the World Trade Center became memorials of 9/11

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Companies have changed the way they price their products — and shoppers are getting deliberately overcharged. Here are steps you can take to ensure you are getting the best deal.

The results could shape responses to climate change for decades to come.

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Tom McCarthy handily succeeds at creating a climate change dramedy that feels historical yet timely for our current world

The justices hear oral arguments Monday in a major environmental case over fossil fuel company liability.

“NAZA” has a unique ability to persuade those in denial of the horrors of Gaza.

Residents of Borneo are enduring a severe water crisis after three months without rain. The Kapuas River has receded to a muddy trickle, forcing families to buy water for drinking and cooking.

A Ukrainian publishing boom sparked by the 2022 invasion is now under threat from the force and frequency of Russian attacks

This month brings gripping new novels and thought-provoking memoirs, including anticipated releases from Kawai Strong Washburn, Nathaniel Philbrick, Chuck Lorre and more.

Our columnist on James Sallis’s “Backwater” and three other new novels.

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In undergrad, I took a few creative writing classes, and as I was trying to figure out the stories I wanted to write, the things I wanted to focus on, I kept coming back to the body. As I read and …

An enormous pulse of wave energy will soon reach Southern California and continue north, raising sea levels by half a foot and increasing threats from swells and tides.

I. The first time he sees it, a chord is struck inside him. He is overcome by a kind of excitement he has no words for. The mountain looms above him. Sheer rock walls rise, snow-covered up top with…

In Patrick deWitt’s “Dodge City,” a young man sets off for Canada to avoid serving in the Vietnam War.

Twelve years ago, Vikram Chandra’s Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, The Code of Beauty was published. In terms of actual history, that isn’t long at all; in terms of technology, it’s an eternity. …

An enormous pulse of wave energy will soon reach Southern California and continue north, raising sea levels by half a foot and increasing threats from swells and tides.

A Table for Fortune is about September 11th. As it grew, tracing the roots of that crime in one direction and its poisoned harvest in another, the book bifurcated. The first part is, or means to be…

The man who admitted to stealing hundreds of manuscripts swore he’d never do it again. New online skulduggery resembles his old tricks, and then some.

James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931 – September 30, 1955) From the 1970 A&M album release "Greatest Hits (50 Phil Ochs Fans Can't Be Wrong)" This was Phil's tribute to James Dean, written after he had…

As a record breaking El Niño continues to grow in the Eastern Pacific, climate scientist Daniel Swain explains what may be in store for the next year as we brace for an El Niño “so far above anything ...

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