“Child, Failure, Old, Dead.” At What Age Are People Unhappiest?

“Child, Failure, Old, Dead.” At What Age Are People Unhappiest?

Bobby Duffy on What It Means to Have Happiness as a Goal

By Bobby Duffy | November 19, 2021

Oral Histories: What is the All-Time Cringiest Episode of <em>The Office? </em>

Oral Histories: What is the All-Time Cringiest Episode of The Office?

The Cast and Creators of the Beloved Show Have Some Opinions

By Brian Baumgartner and Ben Silverman | November 19, 2021

What I Learned About Myself and the Natural World by Swimming with Sharks

What I Learned About Myself and the Natural World by Swimming with Sharks

Ross Frylinck on the Mysterious Allure of Marine Life

By Ross Frylinck | November 19, 2021

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Featuring the 1619 project, Patricia Highsmith's diaries, a Neal Stephenson cli-fi thriller, and more

By Book Marks | November 19, 2021

Lights, Camera... Corn: 15 Quintessentially Midwestern Movies to Watch After <em>Fargo</em>

Lights, Camera... Corn: 15 Quintessentially Midwestern Movies to Watch After Fargo

Charlie Berens Recommends Heartland Classics, from Purple Rain to Planes, Trains and Automobiles

By Charlie Berens | November 19, 2021

Plants and Politics: Rebecca Solnit on George Orwell’s Garden

Plants and Politics: Rebecca Solnit on George Orwell’s Garden

This Week on the Radio Open Source Podcast

By Open Source | November 19, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Awake Awake
  • Etna
  • Triage
  • The Amateur
  • The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn
  • The Story of Your Life: How Social Media Shapes the Way We Experience Everything
  • The Cruelest Game: Chasing Greatness in Professional Tennis
  • The Ego Trip: Psychedelic Toads, a Trail of Deaths, and the Guru Who Peddled Transcendence
  • The Blue Flame

Finding the Language of Interiority in Saint Augustine’s Confessions

By Roosevelt Montás | November 19, 2021

Amor Towles on How Peter Matthiessen Inspired Him To Write

By The Literary Life | November 19, 2021

Charles Band on Shooting Inside His Own Castle and Borrowing a Costume from Bram Stoker’s Dracula

By Charles Band | November 19, 2021

On the Culinary Americanization of First-Generation Immigrants

On the Culinary Americanization of First-Generation Immigrants

Priya Fielding-Singh Considers Narratives of Dietary Acculturation and Cultural Tension

By Priya Fielding-Singh, PhD | November 19, 2021

Greta Kelly on Witches, Magic, and the Complexities of Power in Her New Book

Greta Kelly on Witches, Magic, and the Complexities of Power in Her New Book

In Conversation with Gabrielle Mathieu on the New Books Network

By New Books Network | November 19, 2021

Aviva Chomsky on Why Climate Justice Is Just As Important as Science

Aviva Chomsky on Why Climate Justice Is Just As Important as Science

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | November 19, 2021

Nick Ochsner on the Country’s Greatest Electoral Fraud

Nick Ochsner on the Country’s Greatest Electoral Fraud

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | November 19, 2021

Carin Clevidence on the Fallacies of a “Pristine” Antarctica

Carin Clevidence on the Fallacies of a “Pristine” Antarctica

This Week from The Common Podcast

By The Common | November 19, 2021

<em>The Boys</em> by Ron Howard and Clint Howard, Read by the Authors and Bryce Dallas Howard

The Boys by Ron Howard and Clint Howard, Read by the Authors and Bryce Dallas Howard

Their Lives in Hollywood, and At Home

By Behind the Mic | November 19, 2021

“Am I Doing Enough?” Hermione Hoby on Balancing Pleasure and Politics

“Am I Doing Enough?” Hermione Hoby on Balancing Pleasure and Politics

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | November 18, 2021

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