Noam Chomsky, one of the world’s most famous and respected intellectuals, will be 96 years old on Dec. 7, 2024. For more than ...

Mark Lilla’s book is a refreshing look at a timeless philosophical question: To know or not to know?

The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction. By The New York Times Books Staff Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction ...

It’s a good thing there’s a list to help narrow your decision by letting you see the most popular Netflix shows. That’s right, every week, Netflix releases its list of the 10 most-watched TV ...

Costco members know the sight of a table covered in books for toddlers, kids and adults, but starting in January 2025, Costco's famous table of books will no longer be found at hundreds of the ...

Book bargain hunters ... plans to stop selling books at most of its U.S. stores at the beginning of the year. In January, Costco will remove the store’s popular book section from the majority ...

Socrates and Phaedrus find a place to rest under the shade of a plane tree. There, Socrates attempts to convince Phaedrus to discuss the speech given by the famous orator. In the dialogue, he ...

There's a constant debate over how to track your reads (Goodreads or Storygraph), whether audiobooks count as reading (they do), and how the most popular book should be cast if adapted into a film.

A world-renowned moral and political philosopher, T. M. Scanlon spent over 35 years at Harvard (and before that, 18 years at ...

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