Writers, activists, and scholars reflect on the most urgent books of 2025—from Palestine and caste to climate, queerness, and resistance. Read their picks.

They grew up with stories, stickers, and swipes. Now they’re transforming how we communicate, collaborate, and create.

In 2025, the line between brand messaging and cultural commentary continued to blur. As the year ends, let’s look back at the ...

The Lede Reporting and commentary on what you need to know today. This way of perceiving social reality—and particularly a person’s reading life—may seem inane, even deranged. But performative reading ...

What did that feel like for him?” Boddice asked. I stared for a few seconds while Boddice smiled encouragingly, as if he’d just asked me to solve a quadratic equation in my head. “I guess it probably ...

Twenty-five years into the 21st century, culture is markedly different than it was in the previous millennium. Everyday life has never contained more stuff—an endless reel of words, ideas, games, ...

Beth Felker Jones’s book charitably holds up its merits against other traditions. In an age which often seems characterized by vitriol, division, and polarization among Christians, books such as Beth ...

The city of Santa Clarita will present its latest art exhibition, “Pop Culture,” on view at the Newhall Community Center now ...

Why does stopping at a red light become automatic? New neuroscience shows how the cerebellum turns visual cues into fast, ...

Accumulating research and emerging experiences suggest we're witnessing fundamental changes in human psychological ...

On today's 'Daily Variety,' the Faith & Media Initiative explores portrayals of spirituality in pop culture; Richard Gere on his Dalai Lama doc.

Researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience have become the first to fully characterize cell activity from a little relay station in the center of the human brain. This aids our ...