“Several people have told me lately that they’ve stopped being able to read, echoing my own experience,” author Katherine May confessed in her newsletter recently. Statistics suggest May and her ...

A python hunter captured a nearly 17-foot, 202-pound snake in the Florida Everglades. While it is legal to eat python meat in Florida, health officials strongly advise against it. Testing has revealed ...

A contracted hunter captured the second-heaviest Burmese python ever recorded in Florida, weighing 202 pounds. Invasive Burmese pythons are devastating the South Florida ecosystem by preying on small ...

Spin-out Merge Labs aims to rival Elon Musk’s brain-chip company Neuralink. But researchers say the technology is still at an early stage. Brain implants are beginning to help people with severe ...

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From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Vernice and Annie might have grown up together in Louisiana, but in this well crafted and absorbing new novel from the author of An American Marriage, the lives of the two women diverge greatly when ...

One of the great, bittersweet pleasures of life is finishing a title and thinking about how it might have affected you—if only you’d found it sooner. (From 2022) (Courtesy of WIlliam P) I recently ...

Previously unpublished Toni Morrison; fiction by Tayari Jones, Lauren Groff and Mario Vargas Llosa; Gavin Newsom’s memoir; and more. Credit... Supported by Rivera Garza, the Pulitzer Prize-winning ...

Amid winter’s deep chill we all yearn for an engrossing book and a fireside chair—or at least a quilt or electric blanket. February’s the month to hunker down with literary equivalents of Valentine’s ...

Reading picks from Book Review editors, guaranteed to suit any mood. By The New York Times Books Staff Here is the standout fiction and nonfiction of the year, selected by the staff of The New York ...