In her new book, "Pieces You'll Never Get Back: A Memoir of Unlikely Survival," author Amina Ali pens a harrowing and redemptive memoir, in which a new mother must reconstruct her shattered mind, her relationship to her religious upbringing, and her life's purpose.

As children we learned the that "stick and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me." But Alia Dastagir says it's not true - online attacks with words produce real physical and mental health consequences for their victims.

Most of us can probably point to examples of people who suffered from racism, or who overcame racism. But Keon West reminds us all that "the plural of anecdote is not data" and that science actually has a lot to say about the reality of racism today, if we take the time to consider it and really understand.

The end of World War in Europe meant mothers with sons and husbands at war could celebrate the end of the war there, even as they worried about the possibility their loved ones might be heading to the invasion of Japan. Historian Tim Gray has made his life's work about telling the stories of those heroes, their sacrifices, and their legacy.

It's possible that we live inside a simulated reality or a pocket universe embedded in a larger structure about which we know virtually nothing. And consciousness may be a physical matter, or it might require something extra, something nonphysical. Philosopher Eric Schitzgebel says the answers to these and other fundamental questions about our existence lie beyond our powers of comprehension.

Award-winning journalist and author Abigail Leonard dives into her new book, "Four Mothers: An Intimate Journey through the First Year of Parenthood in Four Countries."

Harvard-educated lawyer and animal rights advocate Elizabeth MeLampy discusses animals and their relationships with people in her new book "Forget the Camel: The Madcap World of Animal Festivals and What They Say About Being Human."

Award-winning author, poet, and social critic Hanif Abdurraqib takes readers of his new book, "There's Always This Year" on an emotional journey that blends the worlds of basketball, celebrity, and the places we call home.

It's not unusual for friends, family members, and even good bosses to tell us, "practice some selfcare." Author Nicole Karlis says there are physical and emotional benefits to practicing care for others, too.

As Finance Editor of The New York Times, Michael Corkery helps lead one of America's great newspapers as it tells the story of President Trump's second administration.

Human writing has made possible the rise of philosophy, critical thinking, and civilization. Now, scholar Naomi Barron warns that artificial intelligence threatens to yield to the machine that makes us most human.

There was a time in the United States-not that long ago-when local newspapers played an undisputed positive role in holding people in authority to account. ProPublica editor and reporter Daniel Golden practices his craft in that great tradition.

There is a crisis of loneliness in the United States-it began before the pandemic and it has only gotten worse. Author Tara Isabella Burton explores the risks people will take to find belonging, to find purpose, and to find love in her book, "Here in Avalon."

Disinformation isn't new, but Freedom House researcher Allie Funk warns that over the last year, 16 governments have deployed generative artificial intelligence to smear opponents, blur the truth, and shape political debate.

It's easy to look at American politics, now, and find individuals for whom loyalty to party or an individual leader is the only thing that matters. But historian Richard Aldous tells us of another time when service to the nation was the highest service in public life.

In honor of Black History Month, Brown University historian Francoise N. Hamlin discusses what African Americans have to celebrate and the challenges that remain.

It's easy to listen to the news and conclude that things have never been more fraught. Cultural historian Kliph Nesteroff argues just the opposite, explaining that throughout American history, women, minorities, and others have always had to fight an array of powerful forces arrayed against them.

The Academy Awards is Hollywood's annual night-of-nights. Pete Hammond, Deadline's Awards Columnist and Chief Film Critic, helps us take stock of the film industry and the films singled out for their powerful storytelling this year.

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Dr. Cornelia Griggs, a surgeon, was completing her fellowship at a New York City hospital when the COVID pandemic began. Her new book, "The Sky Was Falling," chronicles that devastating time in 2020.

We take for granted that the "immigrant experience" is part of the American story. But in an epic new history, Daniel Schulman tells the story of the Jewish immigrants who built some of America's biggest financial institutions and transformed America.

Award-winning veteran journalists Ellen Clegg and Dan Kennedy discuss the way forward for the Fourth Estate and outline its role in preserving democracy in their book "What Works in Community News."