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Isaiah Berlin was born in Riga, Latvia, in 1909, then part of Tsarist Russia. When he was six, his family moved to Petrograd. There in 1917 he witnessed both Revolutions…

From classic texts to modern philosophy books for beginners, these are the best philosophy books to fill your shelves with.

Many of us would like to have more time to read, but life can get in the way of picking up a book. What are strategies that actually work?

«However, speed reading limits your comprehension of the novel, reducing the accuracy of what you read and hindering how much you retain of the story»

Get the simple two-step filter that I use to help me select what to read to improve my total return on invested reading time. Basically, I combine two ideas that both work together.

«“The more basic knowledge you have … the less new knowledge you have to get.”— Charlie Munger»

Do you draw a blank trying to remember books you've read? Try these techniques to retain more of what you read.

«Spend less time worrying about meeting your Goodreads reading challenge, and more about picking out books you’re really excited to read.»

Modern life can feel too frantic for books. Use these habit-building strategies to carve out time for the joy of reading

Do you have a lot of self-help books on your reading list? This simple system helps you to read a self-help book in 90 minutes.

I share some private details of how I educated myself through books

A tale of disaster, survival, and ghosts.

Collaborating on his memoir, “Spare,” meant spending hours together on Zoom, meeting his inner circle, and gaining a new perspective on the tabloids.

Recreating the used bookstore experience via contrastive learning, t-SNE, and 100M book reviews.

Alexander Manshel, Laura B. McGrath, and J. D. Porter discuss the economics and aesthetics of audiobooks....

The writer origin story you've never heard

Maybe one day journalism could be replaced with an immense surveillance state with a GPT-4 plug-in. Why would we want that?

Traces of the future can be read in the palms of the present if you have a working knowledge of science, society, and human nature.

Does the president really read all those books? The answer might surprise you.

Reading fiction has benefits. A notable one is its ability to foster empathy by stimulating brain activity related to emotional intelligence.

«The translation of these studies suggests that reading fiction can help people become more observant, compassionate, and emotionally responsive.»

The quest for authentic joy or shock – or best of all, joy and shock at the same time – which drives reaction...

Shared by 207, including Jason Crawford, Nir Eyal

The search for traces of a beloved writer led to an uncertain pilgrimage—and a friendship that endured over distance and time

The long read: From her shimmering novels to her ‘living autobiographies’, Deborah Levy’s work inspires a devotion few literary authors ever achieve

In his postmodern epic Solenoid, the Romanian novelist offers us an extraordinary and baroque elaboration of a subjectivity less than ordinary.

«he doesn’t live his life but rather “constructed” it.»