“Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda” by Becky Albertalli tells the story of sixteen-year-old Simon Spier. Simon and a mysterious classmate, called Blue, have been exchanging emails using pseudonyms ...

Mark Zuckerberg’s 12th pick for his Year of Books is Yuval Noah Harari’s catalogue of the rise of humankind, Sapiens. Humans are petty, selfish, brutal, and ambitious; we’re generous, foolish, ...

Religion provided early versions of the human story: Zoroastrian sacred texts, the Book of Genesis, the Popul Vuh. These are immensely satisfying on an emotional level; they sweep past trifling ...

Does the rise of artificial intelligence mean the decline—and even end—of Homo sapiens? That’s the question we posed to author, historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari, who sees the potential for ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. Mar 17, 2025, 06:12am EDT Mar 17, 2025, 01:42pm EDT Masai ...

As a novelist, you write about what puzzles, inspires and keeps you awake at night. It feels like a one-off adventure and it’s only in retrospect, years later, that you can see a pattern or a link ...