Storytelling is part of being human. In this nonfiction book, we learn why and how such narratives can also be a trap ...

From the pianoforte to the smartphone, each wave of tech has sparked fears of brain rot. But the problem isn’t our ability to ...

Jack Hoffman introduced himself at the 2013 Husker Spring Game, running for daylight and into the hearts of every Nebraskan.

Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. In “Open Socrates,” the scholar Agnes Callard argues that the ancient Greek ...

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Three people who allegedly ran a Chula Vista company that prosecutors say took nearly $44 million from elderly authors ...

Indictment alleges trio was behind PageTurner, a company that defrauded authors by impersonating literary agents and film ...

How could such a tiny piece of matter have mattered so much? After all, as Mr. Tonelli suggests in the subtitle to his book, matter is a “magnificent illusion.” Mr. Tonelli bookends “Matter ...

The phone calls and emails from the supposed literary agents came in cold and usually targeted elderly, self-published authors, with promises of turning a book into a best-seller or optioning the ...

The indictment concerns PageTurner, a purported book publishing business that prosecutors ... facing charges for their alleged roles in the scam. Charged are Gemma Traya Austin, 58, of Chula ...

Getty Images/iStockphoto Three people are accused of stealing $44 million from more than 800 aspiring authors by offering bogus book ... in the Philippines in the scam, which ran from 2017 ...