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GLENDALE, Ariz. — Carson Beck looked left, he looked right and then he saw a clear path out of the desert and back home.Nearly one year…

A girl on the cusp of adolescence gazes down at a book. Her left hand rests against her flushed pink cheeks, while her right clutches the…

Two years ago, I started learning Japanese on Duolingo. At first, the daily accrual of vocabulary was fun. Every lesson earned me experience points – a…

On the evening of Monday 1 February 2021, during the third Covid lockdown, my wife Alexa and I sat down on the sofa to have sausages and chips in…

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books.Recently, I went out for drinks with a young woman…

There are nights when the dance floor beckons but the bones refuse. When the urge to party arrives, it may be too late to book a…

Stop Chasing HappinessFrank Martela Allen & Unwin (2025)In 2025, Nature searched for the world’s happiest PhD students, anticipating that they might be in Finland. The Nordic…

Yangang Xing had never heard of organ-tuning books, but his colleague Andrew Knight often played the pipe organ at churches as a teenager.When the pair, who…

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books.Venice is a city so globally famous that even those…

The Whispers of RockAnjana Khatwa Bridge Street Press (2025)In 1902, on the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent, a group of women reported that water was boiling…