The New Scientist Book Club stepped away from science fiction for our October read, turning to the winner of the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize instead, serendipitously announced just in ...

Omar El Akkad’s “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This” criticizes Western indifference to civilian suffering ...

Leah Libresco Sargeant argues that we need to better acknowledge human need and vulnerability, and that valuing women “as ...

In the high-stakes world of nuclear submarines, clarity can be a matter of life and death. Retired U.S. Navy Captain David Marquet knows this firsthand. He transformed the USS Santa Fe from the ...

Michael Noetel has received funding from the Australian Research Council, the Medical Research Future Fund, Sport Australia, ...

Former first lady Michelle Obama said Americans are not ready to elect a woman president, pointing to former Vice President ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. What’s going on? This debate over ...

The New Scientist Book Club has been reading Masud Husain’s Our Brains, Our Selves in October, in which the neurologist reveals what some of his patients taught him about the brain. The book won the ...

Clearly, we are not the Greatest Generation. I say that not to demean the men and women who’ve spent the last 20 years deploying back and forth to Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and dozens of other corners ...

All books featured in this new section are available from Middle East Books and More , the nation’s preeminent bookstore on ...