Newer languages might soak up all the glory, but these die-hard languages have their place. Here are eight languages ...

PBS Books is hitting the road and focusing on Alaska. Viewers can tune in at 4 p.m. Wednesday for an episode that explores Alaska’s rich storytelling tradition — from Indigenous oral histories to the ...

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Python has become one of the most popular programming languages out there, particularly for beginners and those new to the hacker/maker world. Unfortunately, while it’s easy to get something up and ...

A NEW CHAPTER opened for many young children in New Hampshire’s North Country earlier this year when Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library began mailing free books to their homes each month, but a local ...

It was “an unfathomable sum” for two fellows who had struggled to get into the industry, Todd James Pierce tells us in “Making Mary Poppins,” an illuminating microhistory of the brothers, their ...

Having trouble getting through that first hundred pages of your next great read? If you’re longing to escape into a long book, but having trouble settling in, perhaps the problem isn’t your attention ...

“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” Quentin Tarantino’s sprawling 1960s-set epic, has certainly been well-covered. But now there’s a way to go even deeper into the Oscar-winning film. There was the movie ...

When Basic Books Group president and publisher Lara Heimert told her mom that she was going to work at the Hachette division's flagship imprint, back in 2005, she was elated. "My mother said, Oh, they ...

The U.S. is finally on the cusp of a nuclear renaissance. New private-sector capital is pouring into advanced reactor technologies, and the global energy market is demanding reliable, around-the-clock ...

In a recent write-up, [David Delony] explains how he built a Wolfram Mathematica-like engine with Python. Core to the system is SymPy for symbolic math support. [David] said being able to work with ...

It’s not always fun to look your finances in the eye, but it can unlock a rewarding path forward. These five books make tackling personal finance approachable, clear, and—dare we say it—an enjoyable ...