Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Shep Hyken is a customer service/CX expert, author & keynote speaker. Just in time for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, here is a ...

With the nation's big 2-5-0 coming up next year, NPR staff and critics recommended a lot of U.S.-focused titles for Books We Love, our annual year-end reading guide. Below you'll find 10 favorites — ...

Plato and Aristotle in discussion, 1437, by Luca della Robbia (ca 1400-1482), marble tile, depicts two of the greatest philosophers, who wrote two of the all-time best philosophy books. Philosophy ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Guo, whose 2017 memoir “Nine Continents” detailed her difficult road to personal and artistic freedom, pours that ...

The introduction of the Japanese television cooking show “Iron Chef” may have immortalized the words of 18th-century French author Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin: “Tell me what you eat, and I will tell ...

If this month’s selections could be awarded superlatives, they’d include Longest (for Jill Lepore’s 720-page history), Shortest (for the under-200-pages “Pick a Color”), Most Striking (for Stephen ...

In a hard year—and when, recently, have we had one we’d consider easy?—books can be a lifeline and a balm, a place to retreat and regain our grounding. Among the many entertaining, delightful, ...

Feeling physically and emotionally worn out at the end of 2025? You’re not alone. Glassdoor recently announced that its word of the year was ‘exhausting.’ Use of the word on the workplace reviews site ...