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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.

Why do public intellectuals condescend to their readers?

From "unabridged" to "slanguage," Madeline Kripke's library is a logophile's heaven (or hell).

“When I started writing this review, I resolved to avoid the mawkish, almost elegiac tone that often seeps into essays about Scialabba. As you can see, I’ve failed.”

What can the great myths (and the summer blockbusters) tell us about peace? The writer, who has turned to fables all his life, weighs their wisdom – and considers the price he himself has paid for…

«‘Peace only exists here in pink plastic’ … Barbie, one of this summer’s legends.»

The long read: Andrew Wylie is agent to an extraordinary number of the planet’s biggest authors. His knack for making highbrow writers very rich helped to define a literary era – but is his reign now…

Huxley was a very special kind of expert witness to his own unusual states of consciousness, which he actively cultivated in the service of his writing.

It’s a weird thing to say, but I guess I’m a professional reader. That’s really what authors are. A book is made of books. “The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading; a man will turn…

«great line the Stoics loved—that we never step in the same river twice.»

Some authors are known for their prolific output. Far more romantic, however, is the image of the suffering author who dedicated their time to a single masterpiece. Here, we look at six authors who…

Librarian secrets to getting into books for the very first time.

The time had come again. The little white bookshelf in the dining room, two shelves, three feet wide, was full. Overly full. The books were stacked in columns, bottom edges rather than spines show…

From the rise of information to liberalism and extinction, these 9 books will explain to you how the world works.

«Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigueby Ryan Holiday»

We looked at over 1,400 romance novel covers featured in Publishers Weekly from 2011 to 2023 and evaluated each cover based on its raunchiness (or level of undress), art style, and representation of…

Reading Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa’s encyclopedic study of magic is like stumbling into a vast cabinet of curiosities, where toad bones boil water, witches transmit misery through optical darts, and…

Maria Kodama's fierce loyalty transformed the legacy of Argentina's most-cherished author, Jorge Luis Borges.

Rating: 8/10. Read this book and your life is guaranteed to be a success. Jokes aside, this collection is really one of the most dense packages of modern wisdom and easily applicable mental models out…