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Need a break from your phone? These books can help

We all know that we should spend less time staring at our phones. Too much screen time has been linked to depression, anxiety and poor sleep quality. But many of our favourite apps and online platforms are designed to...

Need a break from your phone?

A journey through culture, tradition

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Five classic short stories of Alice Munro

Alice Munro. NYT file photo

Paul Auster’s best books: A guide

Paul Auster

Some used to dread readings. Now they sell out

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Simon & Schuster turns 100

Authors signatures on a placard in the waiting room for those waiting to appear onstage at a centennial celebration for publisher Simon & Schuster at The Town Hall in Manhattan, on April 8, 2024. — NYT

There’s an Art to Arranging a Bookshelf. Here’s How It’s Done.

Interior designer Jeremiah Brent arranges a bookshelf at his home in New York on March 4, 2024.

Vast personal library of Charles Darwin uncovered for the first time

Vast personal library of Charles Darwin uncovered for the first time

Hermes vs Hermes: Turkish bookseller takes on French giant

Umit Nar, owner of the Hermes bookshop, reads a book in Izmir, on February 6, 2014. Umit Nar, a bookseller in the western city of Izmir, is being sued by the French luxury brand Herm鑚, which wants to prevent him from using the name of the Greek god for his shop. Umit Nar, who owns the Sahaf Hermes store in the Aegean coast city of Izmir, argues that he has been in business for 15 years and never once been mistaken for a French luxury goods maker.

Omani author’s ‘The War’ wins Katara prize

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Margaret Renkl writes in the space between grief and hope

Author and essayist Margaret Renkl in her garden at her home in Nashville.

Did a computer write this? Book industry grapples with AI

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Al Bagh opens window to life in Oman's past

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In the beginning were the word nerds

The OED was made up of a wide range of gloriously colorful figures, all of whom volunteered their time as an act of service, or pleasure. — Yale University Press

Fosse’s books seek and find the divine

Jon Fosse

A floating reservoir of knowledge

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