The new year begins with a host of promising titles from George Saunders, Julian Barnes, Jennette McCurdy, Karl Ove Knausgaard and more. Here's a look ahead at what's publishing this month.

Palantir Technologies is one of the secretive and powerful companies in Silicon Valley. It develops software that can quickly analyze massive amounts of data, used by government agencies, the military ...

Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times. Our critic on four excellent new novels. By Alida Becker In “The Typewriter and the Guillotine,” Mark Braude takes on the ...

A Guardian and a Thief,” by Megha Majumdar wins 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and “Things in Nature Merely Grow,” by Yiyun Li, wins the 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for ...

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Prepare to go deeper into the stories that matter. This new audio podcast is designed to extend the literary experience of our best-selling titles, creating a deep-dive destination for listeners eager ...

Former Nickelodeon star Jennette McCurdy is out with her fiction debut "Half His Age," which tells the story of a teen girl ...

2 hours and 30 minutes, including one intermission. The Book of Mormon follows two young missionaries who are sent to Uganda to try to convert citizens to the Mormon religion. One missionary, Elder ...

Software engineering is the branch of computer science that deals with the design, development, testing, and maintenance of software applications. Software engineers apply engineering principles and ...

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.