He developed a reading habit during his teenage years and has honed it over the years, encouraging him to get into writing.

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In his book “American Oasis,” Kyle Paoletta explores the region’s environmental and cultural struggles and what they mean for the rest of the nation. In Adam Ross’s long-awaited second ...

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This year’s selections confronted politically charged topics head-on, from immigration to artificial intelligence, Zionism ...

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The lesson: Beware unintended consequences ... Laura Numeroff set off a whole franchise of books about insatiable animals, but the moral remains the same. Mouse, moose, dog, human – for some ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. One day several years ago, I wandered into a local deli and bought a loaf of bread unlike any I had ever ...

Aesop’s Fables have been heralded as important tales that illustrate significant moral lessons in a way that is easy for all to understand. In fact, the fables were so popular that when the printing ...

What, then, can grown-ups glean from all those hours reading aloud? In the holiday spirit and with New Year’s resolutions ...