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Casey Johnston’s new book, "A Physical Education," considers how weight lifting can help you unlearn diet culture.

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The science fiction and fantasy author Martha Wells recommends her favorite novels that will transport you to other worlds.

A deep dive on gossip. Revolutionary history. A meditation on muscle. A closer look at the color blue. And memoirs galore. There's something for everyone on this nonfiction summer reading list.

Suddenly, fewer people are traveling outside the generative-AI sites—a development that poses an existential threat to the media, and to the livelihood of journalists everywhere.

The best books of 2025 (so far) Katie Kitamura, Ocean Vuong, Omar El Akkad, and Jamie Hood are behind some of our early favorites this year.

A new documentary about the 1975 fiscal crisis, Drop Dead City, is entertaining to watch but dangerously misleading as history—or politics.

In nimbly reported essays, the New Yorker writer Evan Osnos considers the bizarre spectacles and amoral contortions of the ultrarich.