In 2025, it felt like we simultaneously took a leap into the future and were hurtled back a few decades. So it’s no surprise ...

So many books, so little time! With these simple tips from BookTokkers, librarians and other literary experts, you can read more books without completely rearranging your life. Our editors and experts ...

I research and write about happiness, so every year before Jan. 1, I ask people, “What resolutions will you make this year?” With reliable frequency, people tell me, “I want to read more.” Perhaps ...

Read is a 44-year-old financial analyst from Mansfield, Massachusetts who is standing trial for allegedly hitting and killing her boyfriend, former Boston police officer John O'Keefe, with her SUV ...

Nicholas Dames has taught Literature Humanities, Columbia University’s required great-books course, since 1998. He loves the job, but it has changed. Over the past decade, students have become ...

The retrial of Karen Read is shaping up to be altogether similar to her first murder trial, but there are several differences that could influence whether the jury reaches a verdict this time around.

Karen Read was found not guilty of the most serious charges in her high-profile Massachusetts murder retrial in June 2025. In their fourth day of deliberations, jurors acquitted Read of second-degree ...

The jury in the second trial of Karen Read—the Massachusetts woman who allegedly killed her boyfriend in Jan. 2022, when authorities say she ran over him with her SUV, leaving him to die—began ...