If you’re looking for a place to start, W3Schools has a Python tutorial that’s pretty straightforward. It breaks things down ...

The challenges and strains have been almost too much to take. But in 2025, words of depth and courage have been an antidote to numbness I once saw a young glassblower in Istanbul, still new to his ...

The Royal Society of Literature (RSL) has named Elif Shafak as its new president, taking over from Bernandine Evaristo. Evaristo’s four-year term came to its end at the RSL’s Annual General Meeting on ...

Bash Scripts are essential for easing the lives of sys admins, developers, and Linux users in general. And an integral part of bash scripting is conditional statements, i.e. if, else if, and if else ...

So, you’re looking to get a handle on Ubuntu and Python, huh? It’s a pretty solid combo for anyone wanting to do some serious coding. Whether you’re just starting out or you’ve been around the block a ...

Hello Pythonistas, if you have started from here, you might not yet understand Python programs. For this, you need to understand the Python syntax. It’s like the grammar of Python. After reading this, ...

For this week’s Marginalia, I spoke with Elif Shafak in anticipation of the paperback release of her novel, There Are Rivers In the Sky. The book follows three primary characters at three very ...

Python is best thought of as a dynamic but strongly typed language. Types aren’t associated with the names of things, but with the things themselves. This makes Python flexible and convenient for ...

The books they read this year that have stayed with them. By Dwight Garner, Alexandra Jacobs and Jennifer Szalai “People might be surprised to see a shelf with almost nothing on it except a copy of ...

One Sunday morning in May, 2023, I arrived at a literary agent’s Manhattan apartment, bearing a lemon tart, to attend a brunch in honor of the author Sayaka Murata. I rang the doorbell. There was a ...