Alan Turing and his assistant Donald Bayley celebrated victory in their quiet English way, by taking a long walk together.

2025 is the 40th anniversary of the MIT Media Lab. In the coming year, people are going to be talking a lot about the lab’s ...

The Lab Press giveaways that they are bringing to ComicsPRO 2025 this month - Tula Lotay covers and plush toys ...

The Elwha — which spent over half a century sailing Puget Sound and beyond, sometimes tearing up ferry docks or ramming rocks — will stay in the area with an entirely new purpose. This spring ...

An announcement from Simon & Schuster’s publisher left the literary community wondering whether blurbs, the little snippets ...

For the novelist Rebecca Makkai, writing blurbs had become nearly a full-time job. She explains why blurbs matter — and why ...

Someone left this book outside my dorm building, so I decided to read it. You read that right — some anonymous person, admirer or whomever left a random book just outside my dorm building in Baker ...

One reason to start writing letters the old-fashioned way: opening the mail can be fun.

A book celebrating letters speaks in its subtitle of gathering “memorable quotes from a moribund art.” What hope does an art have when even its votaries are sure of its demise? Rachel Syme is ...

A rare letter signed by former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover discussing the aftermath of President John F. Kennedy's ...

Editor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the ...

The U.S. Agency for International Development is facing a reckoning under the second Trump administration following years of allegations of mismanagement of funds.