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On Tuesday, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction on President Trump's attempt to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Above, the building that houses the offices of the IMLS in Washington, D.C. Jacquelyn Martin/AP hide caption
In the two decades psychologist Zorana Ivcevic has studied creativity, she's found that even though creative people are unique, anyone can be creative. Getty Images hide caption
Percival Everett has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his novel James. Henry Nicholls/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Foreign Fruit is a hybrid memoir that pulls apart mythologies of colonialism, inheritance and identity like the segments of a citrus fruit. Above, citrus on display at a shop in the UK. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images hide caption
'The Wager' chronicles shipwreck, mutiny and murder at the tip of South America
Lubrin, who is known for her poetry, published her debut fiction collection Code Noir in 2024. Rachel Eliza Griffiths/Carol Shields Prize for Fiction hide caption
This Hollywood memoir is an expertly mixed cocktail of history and family drama
Some sea slugs can steal the abilities of other animals after eating them. Biologist Drew Harvell thinks this "super power" could be harnessed by researchers one day to make transplantation surgeries in humans more effective. TARIK TINAZAY/Getty Images hide caption
Regeneration, super strength, stolen powers: Meet sea creatures inspiring research
Tina Knowles at the Billboard Women in Music 2025 held at the YouTube Theater on March 29 in Los Angeles, Calif. Christopher Polk/Billboard via Getty Images hide caption
Tina Knowles, mother of Beyoncé and Solange Knowles, discusses new memoir 'Matriarch'
"Correspondence is a leap of faith, and that is part of what makes it wonderful," says Rachel Syme, author of Syme's Letter Writer: A Guide to Modern Correspondence. "You may never know if the person you are writing to will write you back." Illustration © by Joana Avillez, Reprinted with permission from Syme's Letter Writer by Rachel Syme/Clarkson Potter Publishers hide caption
AI eavesdrops on your sleep in this nightmarish 'Dream Hotel'
These 2 funny books give readers a reason to smile in tough times
An image of rocks on Mars. Biologist Kelly Weinersmith and cartoonist Zach Weinersmith spent four years researching what it would look like if humans lived here. NASA/JPL/Cornell hide caption