“A writer,” Saul Bellow once observed, “is a reader moved to emulation.” But what if it’s also the other way around? What if, when we think about writing, we are actually teaching ourselves how to ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. In the course of drafting his story, Chandler was no less annoyed by Hollywood than by a ...

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A MIT student describes a method of reading a 400-page textbook in two hours using NotebookLM. The process begins by ...