Elaborately designed books with patterned edges and other effects started as a trend in romance and fantasy, and have now spread throughout the publishing industry. By Alexandra Alter Robert ...

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we’ve gathered the top books by Black authors to come out in 2024. From young adult to fantasy to non-fiction to children’s literature, we have something for everyone.

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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If author Sarah Penner had gone to a séance five years ago and asked to see her future, the psychic medium might have said: “You’re looking at it, my dear.” Since then, Penner’s pivot ...

Many flies are plagued by parasitic wasps, which lay their eggs in fly larvae, turning them into surrogate wombs for wasp larvae. One common fly has successfully fought off its wasp predator by ...

Design sprints are an intense 5-day process where user-centered teams tackle design problems. Working with expert insights, teams ideate, prototype and test solutions on selected users. Google’s ...