Eric Carle's 'The Greedy Python' offers a lesson on greed that resonates with Florida's invasive snake crisis.

Christian Smith responds to CT’s reviews of Why Religion Went Obsolete. Of all the themes I stress in Why Religion Went Obsolete, the importance of “deep culture” is among the most fundamental.

Journalist and author Steven Rosenbaum has more reasons than most to distrust AI. His new book, The Future of Truth: How AI Reshapes Reality, is all about “how Truth is being bent, blurred, and ...

A stealthy Python-based backdoor framework capable of long-term surveillance and credential theft has been identified targeting Windows systems. According to research from Securonix, the malware, ...

Digital books have grown in popularity over the past decade, but more Americans still read books in print than in digital formats. Overall, 75% of U.S. adults say they have read all or part of at ...

“This is a book about intelligence,” writes Sebastian Mallaby, Paul A. Volcker senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), in his new book, The Infinity ...

The New York Times has cut ties with a freelancer after the paper discovered he used AI to help write a book review that inadvertently incorporated elements of a Guardian review on the same title. A ...

Val Kilmer died in 2025, but fans might still get to see him in 'As Deep as the Grave' using AI technology. Here's what the film director said about the opportunity. “He was the actor I wanted to play ...

In my Boston Globe review of Louise Erdrich’s 2016 novel “LaRose,” I described her as “an artist of the liminal.” “Python’s Kiss,” Erdrich’s new collection of stories written over 20 years, testifies ...

Two new research reports highlight growing concerns about the impact of AI use on teens and young adults’ mental health and how they use the technology to address those challenges. The reports—both ...