Optimistic people share patterns of brain activity, and make more of a distinction between positive and negative events than pessimists do, a brain-imaging study has found. “What if the common ...

Researchers have discovered the brain uses fat the same way muscles do — as an alternative fuel to glucose — going against nearly a century of accepted science.

Raynor Winn's 2018 memoir The Salt Path is billed as a "true story" based on her and her husband Moth's 630-mile trek along the South West Coast Path after sudden financial and health setbacks.

Oprah Winfrey reveals her summer book club selection as "Culpability" by Bruce Holsinger.

Author Raynor Winn's new book has been delayed because questions about her bestselling work The Salt Path have caused her and her husband "considerable distress", her publisher has said. Penguin ...

Egyptian archaeologists located a lost 3,500-year-old cemetery containing mummies, statues, and a Book of the Dead papyrus scroll.

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Reviews, essays, best sellers and children's books coverage from The New York Times Book Review.

Reviews, essays, best sellers and children's books coverage from The New York Times Book Review.

In the 1960s, a hospital in London held a ward full of women who suffered from a range of mental disorders. The women in this “sleep room” were subjected to various medical procedures ...