Python’s lead narrows again, C holds the runner-up spot, C++ returns to third, and SQL climbs back above R in June’s top 10 rankings update. June’s TIOBE Index has the feel of a rematch month. The top ...

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 ...

In “The Man Who Stole the Gods,” Matthew Campbell recounts how cultural artifacts were pillaged in Cambodia. By Hugh Eakin Hugh Eakin is a 2026 spring fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. When ...

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Book-banning might seem like a relic of less enlightened times, but the practice is back in a big way. The American Library Association reports (https://www ...

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The Book of Mormon follows two young missionaries who are sent to Uganda to try to convert citizens to the Mormon religion. One missionary, Elder Price, is an enthusiastic go-getter with a strong ...

NH copy Purchased from the Cullman Endowment. Traces the impact of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" on a diverse group of writers, abolitionists, and social reformers, including Henry David ...