Your brain is not a hard drive—it’s better. With the right training, it can store, recall, and process information with ...

The new book Memory Lane convincingly demonstrates how memories are like Lego buildings that are constantly being rebuilt.

Sometimes the scariness in a book lies in the uncertainty between what is real and what is imagined. A dark sense of dread pervades two of this month’s thriller offerings; the third is a rollicking ...

The novelist Julian Barnes doubts that we can ever really overcome our fixed beliefs. He should keep an open mind.

To honor that large number, I want to log in 70 experiences in 2023 with people I love. My goal is to say yes to whatever you might propose, no matter how big or small. Anything from a cup of coffee ...

The Astley Prize is a brand new international short story competition run by the Nairn Book and Arts Festival in memory of Veyatie Astley, who lost her life in 2023. The contest, whose chosen theme ...

Joy Harjo, the first Native American Poet Laureate in the U.S., is releasing two illustrative books this month, centered ...

Long waits between book releases can make details fade, but Amazon's Recaps feature for Kindle helps jog your memory. Recaps give quick summaries with key plot points for popular book series, ...

To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select ...

Whenever Sarah Corbett Lynch hears the whirring sirens of a police car or ambulance, it triggers a crippling panic attack. For it takes her back to August 2, 2015, when she was eight years old.