For someone who is not a professional swimmer, I spend an awful lot of time under water. I consider it an act of mobile meditation: Sensory input is muffled, so the chaos of the surface world ...

Turning to books for workout inspiration is probably a terrible idea. By Dwight Garner Too few people realize, the choreographer Martha Graham wrote, “how the headlines that make daily history affect ...

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito quoted a five-decades-old case in a decision Friday that favored parents fighting to opt their children out of instruction involving LGBTQ+ books. The case Mahmoud v ...

The Supreme Court on Friday backed a group of religious parents who want to opt their elementary school children out of engaging with LGBTQ books in the classroom, another major legal win for ...

For U. S. readers, Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s Journey to the End of the Night made strong reading, even in its greatly expurgated translation. But that violent and gory novel is a model of Puritan ...

First things first: Susan Choi’s “Flashlight,” her first novel since National Book Award-winning “Trust Exercise,” is almost nothing like “Trust Exercise.” There’s no reason it should be, of course, ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Laura holds ...

English essayist, poet, playwright, and politician Joseph Addison (1672-1719) said, “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” Although physical activity is given credit for being good for ...

The new year has begun, bringing with it the socially sanctioned push to make resolutions. Readers, or those who want to devote more time to reading, tend to set some quantifiable intentions for the ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...