Aria Aber on Her Debut Novel, ‘Good Girl’
“Good Girl” is out now from Penguin Random House.
A Book App Used AI to ‘Roast’ Its Users. It Went Anti-Woke Instead
Fable, a popular social media app that describes itself as a haven for “bookworms and bingewatchers,” created an AI-powered end-of-year summary feature recapping what books users read in 2024. It was meant to be playful and fun, but some of the recaps took on an oddly combative tone. Writer Danny Groves’ summary for example, asked […]
People Are Sharing The Best Books They’ve Ever Read
People Are Sharing The Best Books They’ve Ever Read There are millions upon millions of books out there, and it’s simply impossible to read them all let alone make a dent in all the literature that exists. But every once is a while, you finish a book that speaks to you in such a profound […]
The Best Books of 2025
We are still a few days out from the new year, but our editors have been reading diligently to give you a sneak peak of the best books of 2025. This isn’t a comprehensive list, of course—how could it be when the year hasn’t even yet begun? Rather, it’s a sampling of what we’ve been […]
32 Fashion Books to Gift This Holiday Season
There’s no better gift than a good book. And for the fashion lovers on your list, this holiday season is brimming with delights that won’t just collect dust on a coffee table. Take, for instance, Annie Leibovitz’s Wonderlandcompiling the legendary photographer’s most enchanting fashion imagery (with contributions from Anna Wintour), or Slim Aarons: Style by […]
The Verge’s favorite books from 2024
When it comes to entertainment and education, we can choose from podcasts, videos, games, live performances, or books, one of the oldest and still most popular ways to learn something new or escape (at least temporarily) from today’s troubled world. We asked the staff of The Verge what their favorite reads were in 2024. Their […]
Barack Obama’s Favorite Movies, Music, Books of 2024
Barack Obama dropped his highly anticipated best of 2024 lists, including his favorite movies, songs and books of the year. “I always look forward to sharing my annual list of favorite books, movies, and music,” the former president wrote on his social media accounts. “Today I’ll start by sharing some of the books that have […]
2024’s best Books in brief
Good Nature Kathy Willis Bloomsbury (2024) Trained as a palaeoecologist to analyse plant fossils, Kathy Willis began to study living plants only when she became director of science at London’s Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in 2013. There, she observed visitors stopping next to plants “to inhale their fragrances, bask in their shade, or reach out […]
Europe’s Most Innovative Library Has a Botanical Garden on the Roof
Standing on the garden rooftop of the Warsaw University Library (Biblioteka Uniwersytecka w Warszawie) feels like being at the center of the universe, or at least of Poland. From the perch, you can see the spire of the Palace of Culture and Science, the next-door Copernicus Science Centre, the basketlike PGE Narodowy stadium, and the […]
Nine books to help shape your science career in 2025
CAREER FEATURE 09 December 2024 Researchers seeking to banish workaholic behaviours, boost their pay, have more influence at work or quit academia will find plenty of advice in these books, all published this year.