This is the eighth in an ongoing series of features highlighting authors and new books published by Torrey House Press in ...

The acclaimed novelist Téa Obreht’s sweeping 'Sunrise,' James M. Scott’s propulsive World War II history 'Empire of Ashes' and Jill Lepore’s 'The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State,' are among this ...

Scientists have long known that ancient Homo sapiens and Neanderthals lived alongside each other for thousands of years—until that is, Neanderthals went extinct some 40,000 years ago. That includes ...

NEW YORK (June 16, 2026)—A Human Business: The People-First Model for Lasting Success by Glenn Bostock is now available on Amazon and at major booksellers. The book is published with Forbes Books, the ...

Experts advise that adults should sleep for around eight uninterrupted hours in a cool, dark room. If you do so consistently, they say, you can add years to your life. It’s an ideal many people fail ...

While most libraries prefer that readers use their quiet voices, we just visited a library in Copenhagen where talking is actually encouraged. Ronni Abergel founded The Human Library (or ...

Depending on one’s age, summer reading lists can convey a sense of obligation or a feeling of liberation. For children, summer reading is often an annoying or even daunting duty, a book or two that ...

Ahead of the 250th anniversary of the United States, we asked 25 literary luminaries to each pick one book that they believe reflects where American life is headed or speaks to the present in a ...

A "disabled book" speaks with a reader at the Odense Public Library in Denmark. (Elin Tabitha Hansen/ Courtesy Human Library Organization) America’s public libraries have consistently reinvented ...

Privacy, as a thing of value in the human experience, is perhaps as old as clothes, or doors, or whispers. As a legal concept, though, it’s younger than the Kodak ...

Artificial intelligence technologies have been rapidly rising. Their potential applications are extraordinary, from information synthesis to robotic surgery, statistical analysis, civil engineering, ...

Of all of the top contenders for the hardest problem in science, perhaps the most important to our lived experience is this: What, exactly, is consciousness? Humans have a highly complex brain and, ...