“Python’s Kiss” collects a baker’s dozen stories, nine of which previously have been published in the New Yorker and elsewhere (each is illustrated with a drawing by the author’s daughter, Aza Erdrich ...

Most people who publish a book have been writing for years and, at the very least, have been lifelong readers. That wasn’t the case for Oliver James. The first-time author just released his first book ...

We want to hear from high school teachers and college professors who assign writing. By Dana Goldstein For decades, American students have struggled to produce one dominant form of academic writing: a ...

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. ChatGPT and food-delivery droids came to my campus at roughly the ...

New Jersey public school students in the third, fourth and fifth grades will be taught cursive writing. That proposal was signed into law by Gov. Phil Murphy Monday on his last full day as the Garden ...

For the first time since her explosive acquittal, Karen Read is speaking at length about the case that turned her life into a national true-crime obsession—and the fear that still follows her long ...

I have a drawer full of USB cables and every time I want to connect a device, I have to try them out. USB-C was supposed to simplify things: One cable for everything, that was the promise. In practice ...

Ford’s $19.5 billion write-off on its electric vehicle business is the latest example of foolhardy efforts to quickly phase out fossil fuels. Ford Motor’s stunning announcement that it’s taking a ...

With the open-source Dataverse SDK for Python (announced in Public Preview at Microsoft Ignite 2025), you can fully harness the power of Dataverse business data. This toolkit enables advanced ...

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