This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. Every person alive likely knows how it feels to lie in the dark, willing sleep to ...

After I finished college, Leslie Jamison’s The Empathy Exams won my allegiance immediately and forever.

This past week, The New York Times Book Review published its list of 100 Notable Books of 2023. On Tuesday, a handful of those titles will be named the Review’s 10 Best Books of the year. The ...

The briefing book, written in question-and-answer format, was enormous, of biblical proportions, growing and evolving as the campaign progressed.

A quarter of a century has passed since 44 states said "No, thanks" to Jimmy Carter's offer to serve a second term, yet he still evidently thinks his loss is explained not by foreign policy ...

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Explaining the increasing politicization of the book banning debate. By Claire Moses Book-banning attempts have grown in the U.S. over the past few years from relatively isolated battles to a ...

The briefing books tracked the virus’s spread around the world, asserted China was covering up the disease’s transmissibility and death toll, and warned of political and economic consequences.

Internal Fox News briefing book warned that Rudy Giuliani was “spreading disinformation”: report Fox News' research team advised that Giuliani and fellow Trump boosters spread lies. Fox hosts ...

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