Memories get classified in ways that seem at first blush straightforward. They can be short-term or long-term, semantic or episodic. Semantic memories consist of remembered facts not personally ...

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Would you like to live forever? It sounds utterly exhausting – and so I’ll pass, thank you, Professor Rowlands. Yet to some hopeful readers the subtitle of this short book on memory – ‘Or, How To Live ...

Ruiz, a graphic designer and illustrator, pairs pale somewhat lonely illustrations and very short prose to create a series of tiny vignettes in her debut book, which is only a comic by the most ...

One Hundred Years Of Solitude, the magnificent 1970 novel that made the reputation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, famously begins as a flashback. “Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel ...

Memory Piece, the new novel from National Book Award finalist Lisa Ko, kicks off in the 1980s with three teenage girls who find a deep connection to one another. Into the1990s and eventually the 2040s ...

On a mid-November afternoon, I had the chance to sit down with Julian R. Vaca, author of the novel, “The Memory Index.” Vaca had reached out to me via Twitter about reviewing his book, a young adult ...

How often do you lose or misplace your keys? If the answer is often, then you're in luck. Psychologists have said it is not always a sign of a poor memory. In a new book called The Psychology of ...