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Manufacturers frame tablets as your next PC. The Boox Note Air5 C takes a different approach. It doesn’t want to replace your ...

If economic and technological transformations have changed our relationship with literature before, they could do so again.

Andrew Polk, 26, teaches 10th-grade English in suburban Ohio, not far from where he grew up. As a high school student less ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Stephen Witt’s The Thinking Machine, about the rise of Nvidia and its hard-driving leader Jensen Huang, has won ...

Ms. Koppel is the author of “The Red Leather Diary.” I love diaries — physical, bound paper books filled with handwriting — more and more as the digital has ...

If observing current affairs unfold over these past few years has taught us anything, it’s that history remains helplessly subjective, and that everything we know – or think we know – might just be ...

Anabela Malpique has received funding from The Ian Potter Foundation and currently receives funding from The Collier Charitable Foundation. Deborah Pino Pasternak has received funding from the ...

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – A new policy at the Metropolitan Detention Center removing most paper books from inmates is under scrutiny. The policy, introduced this year, aims to curb contraband by replacing ...