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How to spend your gift money this year? The 100 Notable Books list is a good place to start.

Some three hundred years ago in the early 1700s, in a small village in the Champagne region of France, there lived a humble Catholic priest who dutifully led mass, administered the sacraments, oversaw baptisms and funerals, and kindly tended to the existential needs of his flock. All the while, ...

A who’s who of Renaissance to modern-day humanists, from Petrarch to Bertrand Russell

Among them: deeply researched accounts of what teachers face in America; who benefits from poverty; the wreck in 1741 of the British warship Wager, and the crew's mutiny; the appeal of right-wing, militant thinking for millions of Americans; and how a marriage saved the British monarchy.

Among them: deeply researched accounts of what teachers face in America; who benefits from poverty; the wreck in 1741 of the British warship Wager, and the crew's mutiny; the appeal of right-wing, militant thinking for millions of Americans; and how a mar

In “Humanly Possible,” Bakewell brings her signature blend of wit and philosophical sophistication to the complex, sometimes contentious 700-year history of humanist thought.

How do we reconcile our capacity for good and evil? Humanist thinking does not have all the answers.

A book can be an accomplice in a coup against winter.

A haunting horror novel set a century ago in the American West, Eleanor Catton’s first novel in a decade, a Ukrainian war diary and much more.