Thelyson Orelien, a renowned Haitian-Canadian author, reportedly used AI to assist in writing his novel, prompting his publisher to conduct an investigation. Boreal has confirmed the use of AI despite Orelien’s previous denial.

In Chinese-born, British citizen Xiaolu Guo’s release, “Everyday Tang: On What We Can Learn From a Dynasty,” we journey to her “motherland” in China alongside her 11-year-old Londoner daughter, Moon, to learn how the past informs our present — and future. The duo examined their shared roots and morphing-yet-steady identity in a contemporary youthful lens, while discussing the cosmopolitan achievements of China’s Tang Dynasty, which took place between 618–907, long before either of them — or any

Does social change happen “top down” or “bottom up”—brought about by those who hold power or by those who struggle against the powerful? In “Street Knowledge,” Darien Pollock argues that the most powerful change comes from the bottom up. “Street culture” supplies the creative activity that inspires not only political change but any kind of positive social change. Pollock argues that part of what prevents progressive social change is that people in power only legitimize and respond to ideas and a

JEDDAH: While browsing a European bookshop on my recent travels, I asked a staff member to recommend something deeply devastating to sink myself into as the rain tap-danced behind the closed door. Before she could even respond, my hand gravitated to a book cover that looked like it could play the part perfectly: Georgi Gospodinov’s “Death and the Gardener.” After reading the very first line, I knew I had made the right decision. It read: “My father was a gardener. Now he’s a garden.” “That’s a g

For two millennia, the ancestral Maya of Mexico and Central America created a rich legacy of image and text. “Vital Signs” explains how this graphic system worked, shedding new light on its design, intent, and authorship. One of the few peoples of the ancient world with hieroglyphic writing, the Maya developed an innovative form of visual representation in which written signs, known as “glyphs,” took their shape from pictures. In this groundbreaking book, archaeologist and anthropologist Stephen

Bald eagles are a conservation success story, rebounding after DDT and other harmful chemicals, which drove them to near extinction, were banned. But today, eagles and other wildlife face a new threat: rat poisons. “Animal Collateral” reveals the truth about these poisons the chemical companies and their lobbyists don’t want you to hear, describing how SGARS—an especially deadly class of poison used in bait boxes found around homes, businesses, and communities—are killing owls, hawks, eagles, f

It has long seemed self-evident that women care for babies and men do other things. Hasn’t it always been so? But come the 21st century, increasing numbers of men are tending babies, sometimes right from birth. How can this be happening? Puzzled and dazzled by the tender expertise of new fathers around the world—several in her own family—celebrated evolutionary anthropologist and primatologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy set out to trace the deep history of male nurturing and explain a surprising depar