Australians Can’t Get Enough of the Barefoot Investor The all-time, best-selling nonfiction book in Australia is, somewhat surprisingly, a personal finance guide. And its 39-year-old author, Scott Pape, is a national celebrity. Read More…

Stanford Team Aims at Alexa and Siri With a Privacy-Minded Alternative A handful of companies already dominate the market for digital assistants. The implications for consumer privacy are a serious concern, researchers say. Read More…

Consider Firing Your Male Broker Years of research show female investors outperform men. But only about 1 in 5 brokers are women. Read More…

From an Iconoclast and an Icon, Poems of Personal and Public Transformation In “Evolution,” Eileen Myles makes us reconsider the nature of experience and imagination. Read More…

To Counter Loneliness, Find Ways to Connect Much of modern life, though seeming to promote connectivity, has had the opposite effect of fostering social isolation and loneliness, experts say. Read More…

We’re All Afraid to Talk About Money. Here’s How to Break the Taboo. It’s hard to learn about something when you’re discouraged from talking about it. Read More…