French art historian Thomas Schlesser is still adapting to life as a best-selling global author having written one of the ...

It started with a meme, back in 2019: a collage calling out trans people who wrote some pretty nasty tweets at Rowling for ...

Ernesto Portillo Jr. Oct 22, 2016 Oct 22, 2016 Updated Oct 19, 2022 In O’odham the word for goat is siwat and ce:kol is squirrel. The word for brain is ‘uag. Wanna know the O’odham word for pencil? It ...

Editor’s note: This work is part of AI Watchdog, The Atlantic’s ongoing investigation into the generative-AI industry. On Tuesday, researchers at Stanford and Yale revealed something that AI companies ...

Marking its 30th anniversary on Thursday, the world’s most popular programming language faces a bitter ongoing custody battle rather than a celebration. Creators and community leaders are stepping up ...

I got a notification the other day: “Your screen time was up 261% last week, for an average of 7 hours, 15 minutes a day.” If you know me, you'll know this can only mean one thing. I’m reading again.

It’s a complaint many algebra teachers are familiar with, as more letters and symbols are introduced with progressively harder courses in mathematics. But why did the plus symbol emerge as the ...

This year’s Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL), which runs in the western Mexican city from Saturday, November 29, to Sunday, December 7, promises some 3,000 events and activities, the presence ...

For something that happens mostly alone and in silence, reading can be surprisingly intimate. Our favorite books reveal our interests, inspire the way we think, and offer storylines and fantasies we ...

When I was six, my maiden aunt Eva gave me a first edition of “The World Is Round,” by Gertrude Stein. Eva, who worked in a used bookstore, was the only bohemian in our family, and she revered Stein.

For Martha Barnette, griping about grammatical pet peeves is one of the least interesting ways to talk about language. Instead, the co-host of the radio show “A Way with Words” says she’d rather think ...

Language is one of the few faculties that still seems to be uniquely human. Other animals, like chimpanzees and songbirds, have developed elaborate communication systems, but none appears to convey ...