Two comic books originally sold on US newsstands for just 10 cents have sold for $13 million.

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 ...

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 ...

Visitors to Koryo Books stroll about in no rush. They browse through the “Boy Group” music collection, flip through Korean language books, and scan the back of the store for souvenirs representing ...

Move over Spotify Wrapped: Boston Public Library unveiled its year-end wrap-up lists on Monday morning, including the top 10 checked out books of 2025. In addition to looking back at the year’s top ...

Ask him how it all began, and he remembers the ice. It was a bitter morning in January, 1982, when Bernard Cathomas, aged thirty-six, carefully picked his way up a slippery, sloping Zurich street. His ...

The Vatican Publishing House published Nov. 20 a new Italian-language book by Pope Leo XIV titled The Power of the Gospel: The Christian Faith in 10 Words, a compilation of the Pontiff’s speeches and ...

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 ...

JavaScript’s low bar to entry has resulted in one of the richest programming language ecosystems in the world. This month’s report celebrates the bounty, while also highlighting a recent example of ...

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 ...