Frederick Barthelme’s short stories have to be among the saddest in the English language. A prolific author with a wider ...

She summarizes results from the literature and her own extensive research ... not only communicating meaning to one’s listeners but also supporting our own cognition. People talking on the ...

A Different Kind of Power: A Memoir by Jacinda Ardern (Penguin, $59.99) is available in every bookstore across the land. ReadingRoom is devoting all week to coverage of the book. Tomorrow: a review by ...

“Religion gives meaning to life ... A.O. Scott is a critic at large for The Times’s Book Review, writing about literature and ideas. He joined The Times in 2000 and was a film critic ...

She and Jacques gave themselves a year to find a path to meaning before deciding whether ... In 1927 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. Though Bergson’s philosophy can be abstruse ...

Ngamije is undeniably an excellent stylist, able to delight, amuse and horrify in equal measure, and “Only Stars Know the Meaning of Space,” which feels more connected and cohesive the further ...