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Building on its strong emphasis on reading and parent-child education, China has long promoted the development of nationwide reading initiatives. On December 16, 2025, China officially released the ...

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 ...

PBS Books is hitting the road and focusing on Alaska. Viewers can tune in at 4 p.m. Wednesday for an episode that explores Alaska’s rich storytelling tradition — from Indigenous oral histories to the ...

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I'm writing from Mississippi. I'm here for the Mississippi Book Festival in Jackson. A few hours ago, I had the pleasure of sharing the stage with Alice Randall and Tom Piazza. Our books were about ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...