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On Learning to Take Author Photos Remotely During the Pandemic

On Learning to Take Author Photos Remotely During the Pandemic

Beowulf Sheehan Adapts His Art to a New Normal

By Beowulf Sheehan | August 18, 2021

Deesha Philyaw on Leaving a Marriage While Writing a Short Story Collection

Deesha Philyaw on Leaving a Marriage While Writing a Short Story Collection

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast

By Thresholds | August 18, 2021

On the Lost “Lenny Bruce of Athens”

On the Lost “Lenny Bruce of Athens”

Mark Haskell Smith: In Defense of the Ancient Comedian Who Went After Aristotle

By Mark Haskell Smith | August 18, 2021

Tracing the Crisis of Desertification to Colonization

Tracing the Crisis of Desertification to Colonization

Lisa Wells on the Water Crisis in California’s Central Valley

By Lisa Wells | August 18, 2021

How the Humble Avocado Went from the Unwanted “Crocodile Pear” to America’s Favorite Superfood

How the Humble Avocado Went from the Unwanted “Crocodile Pear” to America’s Favorite Superfood

Andy Robinson Investigates the Human Cost of a Most Coveted Fruit

By Andy Robinson | August 18, 2021

Behind the Invention of the Cryptosystem That Revolutionized Tech

Behind the Invention of the Cryptosystem That Revolutionized Tech

Ian Stewart on the Revolutionary Ideas of Clifford Cocks

By Ian Stewart | August 18, 2021

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When You’re Craving Oddities: 5 Books You May Have
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By Bethanne Patrick | August 18, 2021

Defne Suman Reads from The Silence of Scheherazade

By Damian Barr's Literary Salon | August 18, 2021

Shelby Cole on Climate Grief and Indigenous Land and Water Stewardship

By Reading Women | August 18, 2021

On Robin McKinley’s Fantasies and the Books That Are “Just Yours”

On Robin McKinley’s Fantasies and the Books That Are “Just Yours”

This Week on the NewberyTart Podcast

By NewberyTart | August 18, 2021

Christopher Gray on Hustling to the Top... with an Altruistic Mindset

Christopher Gray on Hustling to the Top... with an Altruistic Mindset

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | August 18, 2021

<em>The Ones We're Meant to Find</em> by Joan He, Read by Nancy Wu

The Ones We're Meant to Find by Joan He, Read by Nancy Wu

An Intense and Memorable YA Listen

By Behind the Mic | August 18, 2021

<em>Grendel</em> at 50: How John Gardner’s Finest Novel Undermines His Ideas About Moral Fiction

Grendel at 50: How John Gardner’s Finest Novel Undermines His Ideas About Moral Fiction

“Grendel is funny, entertaining, troubling, and above all unruly; the novel refuses to behave.”

By Andrew DeYoung | August 17, 2021

Why Does Lionel Messi Ignore the Ball for the First Five Minutes of a Match?

Why Does Lionel Messi Ignore the Ball for the First Five Minutes of a Match?

Simon Kuper on the Life and Career of an Enigmatic Football Genius

By Simon Kuper | August 17, 2021

The Ugliness of Comic Sans Has a Practical Use

The Ugliness of Comic Sans Has a Practical Use

Jonah Lehrer on the Easy Recall of Certain “Disfluent” Fonts

By Jonah Lehrer | August 17, 2021

One in a Million: Where Were You When You Heard that Aaliyah Died?

One in a Million: Where Were You When You Heard that Aaliyah Died?

Kathy Iandoli on the Impact of Generational Celebrity Deaths

By Kathy Iandoli | August 17, 2021

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