Plato’s cave allegory is a famous and influential idea from his book The Republic. It contains an important point about how ...

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 ...

The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction. By The New York Times Books Staff The poet set the course for her revolutionary career early ...

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The United Kingdom’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) recently revealed that "Muhammad" has become the most popular name in England and Wales among newborn baby boys. The ONS declared in a ...

But as Daniel Goleman writes in his book Social Intelligence, in a society that puts too much emphasis on individualism, the ...

Here are the year’s most notable picture, chapter and middle grade books, selected by our children’s books editor. By Jennifer Krauss Frances Hardinge’s “Island of Whispers” is lush ...

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.

By “manners” Tocqueville did not just mean social politeness, but rather the “whole moral and intellectual” attitude of the ...

Orpheus, the son of god of music Apollo and muse Calliope, was the greatest bard, mystic, and prophet in ancient Greek mythology ...