How Do the Books We Read Change Our Brains?

How Do the Books We Read Change Our Brains?

Gregory Berns on Measuring the Effects of a Really Good Story

By Gregory Berns | October 20, 2022

Life Advice for Book Lovers: Mourning Possibility and Leaping Into New Life

Life Advice for Book Lovers: Mourning Possibility and Leaping Into New Life

Book Recommendations to Help the Troubled Soul

By Dorothea | October 20, 2022

Raising Them Right: The Untold Story of America’s Ultraconservative Youth Movement and Its Plot For Power

Raising Them Right: The Untold Story of America’s Ultraconservative Youth Movement and Its Plot For Power

Kyle Spencer in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | October 20, 2022

The Annotated Nightstand: What Maira Kalman is Reading Now and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Maira Kalman is Reading Now and Next

A Series by Diana Arterian

By Diana Arterian | October 20, 2022

How Much Has Changed—And Not Changed—Since the First Rape Trial in American History

How Much Has Changed—And Not Changed—Since the First Rape Trial in American History

John Wood Sweet in Conversation with Roxanne Coady on Just the Right Book

By Just the Right Book | October 20, 2022

Jess Walter on Writing About Hope (Without Losing His Literary Cool)

Jess Walter on Writing About Hope (Without Losing His Literary Cool)

From Micro, a Podcast for Short But Powerful Writing

By Micro Podcast | October 20, 2022

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How the Story of a 2006 Murder Captures the Tragic Complexity of Inequality, Class, and Violence in 21st-Century America

By Keen On | October 20, 2022

How Augmented Technology Can Revolutionize the 21st-Century Factory and Make Work More Productive and Meaningful

By Keen On | October 20, 2022

“Eclectic, Refreshingly Wild, and Important.” Exploring the Archives of America’s Best Literary Journals

By Nick Ripatrazone | October 19, 2022

Zoology and Cartoons: Will McPhail on Drawing Funny Animals

Zoology and Cartoons: Will McPhail on Drawing Funny Animals

The New Yorker Cartoonist on the Schooling Behind the Doodles

By Will McPhail | October 19, 2022

Telling Stories of the Trans Experience is More Important Than Ever

Telling Stories of the Trans Experience is More Important Than Ever

Veronica Esposito on Rhea Ewing’s Fine

By Veronica Esposito | October 19, 2022

A Million Voices: In the Praise of the Polyvocal Novel

A Million Voices: In the Praise of the Polyvocal Novel

Sara Lippmann Recommends Virginia Woolf, Bernadine Evaristo, Joshua Henkin, and More

By Sara Lippmann | October 19, 2022

George Saunders: Why the Revision Process is Critical for Building Fictional Worlds

George Saunders: Why the Revision Process is Critical for Building Fictional Worlds

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | October 19, 2022

Realigners: The Visionaries and Hacks Who Have Radically Transformed American Democracy

Realigners: The Visionaries and Hacks Who Have Radically Transformed American Democracy

Timothy Shenk in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | October 19, 2022

After Surveillance: Imagining a Post-Apocalyptic World in Which We Aren’t Watched Anymore

After Surveillance: Imagining a Post-Apocalyptic World in Which We Aren’t Watched Anymore

Veronica Roth in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | October 19, 2022

How Quitting is the Essential First Step to a Life of Freedom—and Radical Change

How Quitting is the Essential First Step to a Life of Freedom—and Radical Change

Keith Boykin in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | October 19, 2022

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