Here’s a rare piece of heartening tech news to buoy you toward the weekend: A West of Ireland data center objected to by ...

The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful … is the great and most universal cause of our moral sentiments. –Adam Smith * One recent summer afternoon I ...

Today, the National Book Foundation announced the longlist for the 2026 National Book Award for Fiction. These ten titles were selected from a pool of 451 books submitted for consideration by ...

Today, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation, which celebrates “writers whose work demonstrates the power of the written word to foster peace,” announced the winners of the 2026 Dayton ...

When I began thinking about my third novel, What We Left Unsaid, I always knew I wanted to write a version of The Great American Road Trip—only this time, from the perspective of Asian-Americans.

Ah, you must be Nanako?” the tall man said as soon as he entered the café. He looked like he was in his early forties, and had a calmer, more relaxed vibe than I was expecting. “I’m ...

If the old Ernest Hemingway adage holds true, that courage equals grace under pressure, then Anna May Wong (1905-1961) had it ...

I. The first time he sees it, a chord is struck inside him. He is overcome by a kind of excitement he has no words for. The mountain looms above him. Sheer rock walls rise, snow-covered up top ...

The Beauty of Code, The Code of Beauty was published. In terms of actual history, that isn’t long at all; in terms of technology, it’s an eternity.

I wrote my memoir, Huna, in English, which is to say I wrote it inside a contradiction. Huna is a memoir of the Egyptian revolution, six years of political imprisonment in Egypt, and my US exile.