Human behavior is fascinating. At times, it feels as if everyone around us is an open book—until you realize the book is written in Cantonese and you only speak Spanish. Reading people isn’t a science ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. “A writer,” Saul Bellow once observed, “is a reader moved to emulation.” But what if it’s also the other way around? What if, when we think about writing, we are ...

At the start of the season, we made a literary bucket list. Here’s how we checked it off. By The New York Times Books Staff A few months ago, we invited you to join us in a low-stakes summer reading ...

The RI Center for the Book promotes community and literacy by selecting one book annually for statewide reading programs. The ...