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Film critic A.O. Scott on how to be more constructive in your criticisms.

We’ve got five great eBook bundles that can get you working in five of the hottest tech fields around, all at a fraction of their original price.

“You get to this age, you realize that there are people who will not like what you do no matter what you do,” says Booker Prize-winner Salman Rushdie.

Popularity is slippery, and shouldn’t be confused with quality, says critic A.O. Scott.

Baby Yoda merch is on the way, but these Star Wars gifts are available right now.

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These books will help you ideate more creatively.

In David Epstein’s ‘Range’, dabblers and dillettantes are ascendant.

Twain and Tesla had similar passions and an amusing friendship.

A diversity of opinion on the subject of a meaningful life.

Tips on how to intensify engagement with what you’re reading.

Discover the peril and potential of an automated robotic world.

The lives behind a few key inventors.

Books that will sharpen the youthful mind.

Biographies, treatises and stories on the occult and its strange cast of characters.

Modern notions about the Illuminati are the result of a satirical cult-classic book.

The distance between the American dream and reality is expressed best through literature.

A new generation is waiting for the whimsy and wit of Dr. Seuss.

Numerous critics have called for the ban of the infamous instruction manual for violent civil disobedience.

A primer on the infinite of knowledge waiting to be learned.

Transport yourself to other worlds and states of mind.

Foundational business books for success.

Some books had a profound influence on Einstein’s thinking and theories.

The Canadian professor has an extensive collection posted on his site.

Quoth the parrot — “Squawk! Nevermore.”

The gem lapis lazuli is the source of luminescent blue in manuscript illustrations.

Explore McLuhan’s theory on print culture and its influential hold over civilization.

The best-selling author tells us his methods.

The stories we tell define history. So who gets the mic in America?