The Voynich manuscript has long been shorthand for the unsolved and the unknowable, a late medieval codex filled with looping ...

Microsoft is killing off an obsolete and vulnerable encryption cipher that Windows has supported by default for 26 years following more than a decade of devastating hacks that exploited it and ...

The best way to fight doomscrolling in 2025? Getting off your phone and picking up a book. Luckily for us, there were plenty of un-put-down-able reads this year. Whether your genre of choice is ...

It’s that time of the year when PBS News Hour invites two of our regular literary critics, Ann Patchett and Maureen Corrigan, to highlight their favorite books of the year. Jeffrey Brown picks up the ...

We've released our list of 100 Notable Books. (You can read it in full here!) Browsing a list of 100 books is exciting, but can be overwhelming. Want to find one to read right away? We can help! Here ...

WILLIAMSBURG — The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation has filed a legal notice in The Virginian-Pilot seeking to claim property placed in its care nearly 40 years ago. According to the notice, which ...

CIPHER: Decoding My Ancestor’s Scandalous Secret Diaries. By Jeremy B. Jones. Blair. 296 pages. $28.95. History can be uncomfortable and tricky to put together. When Jeremy Jones, the author of the ...

Gen V Season 2 has unveiled a long-anticipated twist surrounding Cipher. The twist reveals the identity of the real force pulling the strings at Godolkin University. While the revelation may not have ...

The finalists for this year's National Book Awards have been announced. Among the 25 nominees are novelists Rabih Alameddine and Megha Majumdar as well as journalists Julia Ioffe and Omar El Akkad, ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Gen V Season 2, Episode 4 includes several major twists about Dean Cipher, from an apparent reveal ...