As an event name, “Proof: A Midwest Lit Fest” works on more than one level. In publishing, a proof is a document used to confirm final corrections before a work goes to press. A more universal ...

I fully expected to dislike Frederick Schauer’s “The Proof: Uses of Evidence in Law, Politics, and Everything Else.” My suspicions, in violation of the oldest of rules about judging books, were ...

In a new book, the mathematical epidemiologist Adam Kucharski explains how certainty, even in math, can be an illusion. Nonfiction In a new book, the mathematical epidemiologist Adam Kucharski ...