Scientists in South Korea have developed a new method of decomposing one of the world's most common types of plastic, BusinessKorea reported. The breakthrough could have major implications in plastic ...

For decades, there was one path to becoming a successful African writer: Getting a book deal in the publishing ... “The West is not discovering us. We are discovering us and then telling our ...

Since then, she’s written essays, a memoir and a children’s book. Now, after 12 years, her long-awaited fourth novel, “Dream Count,” arrives. It tells the story of four women — a ...

That’s the position Wim (Ravi Cabot-Conyers), one of Skeleton Crew’s endearing kid adventurers, finds himself in after years of immersing himself in picture books about the Jedi. Like Luke ...

In the literary world, this year is shaping up to be a good one for fans of cultural criticism: There are new books about Better Call Saul and biographies of James Gandolfini and Lorne Michaels on ...

“What you’re reading here is basically a person having a conversation with his own biography,” as the book’s introduction ... “I remember discovering rock ’n’ roll when I was a ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. A thriller, a dystopia, a Gothic novel about a family curse: Genre lovers have options in this week’s recommended books ...

(What? Just me?) There’s no such thing as an excess of good books, but the roster of forthcoming publications is certainly staggering. Fiction lovers have much to look forward to, with incoming ...