Summer reading: the 50 hottest new books everyone should read

The long read: Every year, thousands of bikes are tossed into rivers, ponds, lakes and canals. What’s behind this mass drowning?

124,000 documents expose inner workings behind US tech firm’s rise as a global empire responsible for 19m journeys a day

«As Uber launched across India, Kalanick’s top executive in Asia urged managers to focus on driving growth, even when “fires start to burn”. “Know this is a normal part of Uber’s business,” he said. “Embrace the chaos. It means you’re doing something meaningful.”»

After more than a decade of writing life-changing advice, I know when to move on. Here’s what else I learned

After water, concrete is the most widely used substance on the planet. But its benefits mask enormous dangers to ecology, to health and to culture itself

Park Avenue was festooned with tulips as we looked for parking on our way to the 62nd annual New York International Antiquarian Book Fair. The Fair was bei

«Perhaps the term “antiquarian,” which traditionally referred to old, valuable books, often first editions and manuscripts, now seems to me to apply to all books. Books, by definition, have become, if not antiquarian, antiquated in their material form. They have become artifacts.  »

Unread books can be as powerful as the ones we have read, if we choose to consider them in the right light.

«the more you read, the more you will expand your perimeter of knowledge, and the more unread books will be added to your antilibrary. It is not a bad thing, it means you are progressively turning unknown unknowns into known unknowns.»

The sinister history of fumigating “foreign” books.

«bookworm displays a “universal disrespect for almost everything, including arsenic and lead.” »

The most tearjerking, hilarious, satisfying, and shocking death scenes in 2,500 years of culture.

The very short story can conjure a fiction out of almost nothing.