In her biography of the novelist George Sand, Fiona Sampson urges us to see Sand chiefly as a writer, an inventor of stories and also of the self. By Rebecca Chao Sarah Weinman on “Heather,” by ...

Probabilistic models, such as hidden Markov models or Bayesian networks, are commonly used to model biological data. Much of their popularity can be attributed to the existence of efficient and robust ...

June 23, 2026 • Facts by day, fiction by night! At the end of a long day in the newsroom, many of our journalists head home and escape into novels of all types.