Texas public schools could soon be required to teach biblical passages in English classes, according to a draft proposal ...

Death and the Gardener by Georgi Gospodinov, translated from the Bulgarian by Angela Rodel (Orion, £18.99). A modest personal meditation on his father’s life and painful death, Georgi Gospodinov’s ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Monday released the provisional list of governorship and deputy governorship candidates for the June 20, 2026 Ekiti State election. The list, ...

Over the past century, there have been countless attempts to assemble a definitive list of essential literature. In recent decades, however, the very idea of a literary canon has become a source of ...

Back when I first published this list in 2017, my two daughters were just 3 years and 7 months old. Now somehow I find myself the mom of an 11-year-old and an 8-year-old who have largely outgrown ...

Mangione, who is accused of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, is in the midst of marathon evidence suppression hearings ahead of his trial Sarah Yenesel/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge to a Texas county’s removal of 17 books from its public libraries, leaving in place a lower court ruling that allowed the purge. The books ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... My favorite part of the holidays is giving someone a book. I’m that person who gives everyone on my list a wrapped book then I joke it’s a box of socks. My ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. This year’s Atlantic 10—our list of the best books of 2025—is an attempt to celebrate writing that ...

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