What Poetry Can Teach Novelists: A Reading List

What Poetry Can Teach Novelists: A Reading List

Caroline Hardaker on How to Master Description, Rhythm, and Pace

By Caroline Hardaker | April 15, 2021

Simon Winchester Advises Against Eating Polar Bear Liver

Simon Winchester Advises Against Eating Polar Bear Liver

This Week from the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | April 15, 2021

The Lesser-Known Protest that Kicked Off Gay Liberation in Los Angeles

The Lesser-Known Protest that Kicked Off Gay Liberation in Los Angeles

Jon Wiener and Mike Davis on Gay Activism Before Stonewall

By Jon Wiener and Mike Davis | April 15, 2021

From K-Pop to a Bach Cantata: How the Brain Recognizes Music

From K-Pop to a Bach Cantata: How the Brain Recognizes Music

Michael Spitzer Looks at the Universality of Rhythm and Melody

By Michael Spitzer | April 15, 2021

Tess Lewis on the Politics and Ethics of Translation

Tess Lewis on the Politics and Ethics of Translation

In Conversation with Naveen Kishore
on The Quarantine Tapes

By The Quarantine Tapes | April 15, 2021

Inside the Secret Facility Where the USSR’s First Cosmonauts Trained

Inside the Secret Facility Where the USSR’s First Cosmonauts Trained

Stephen Walker on the Vanguard Six

By Stephen Walker | April 15, 2021

Best Reviewed
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  • The Traveler: One Man's Quest for Humanity from the South Seas to Revolutionary Paris
  • Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America

On the Watery Language of Finnegans Wake

By The Cosmic Library | April 15, 2021

On the Bottomless Well of Grief After a Brother’s Death

By Adam Mansbach | April 15, 2021

How Ashley Bryan’s 40-Year Secret Inspired the Category-Defying Infinite Hope

By NewberyTart | April 15, 2021

UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ on Creating Institutional Change from Within

UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ on Creating Institutional Change from Within

From the ArtCenter College of Design’s Bi-Weekly Podcast

By Change Lab | April 15, 2021

<em>Accidentally Engaged</em> by Farah Heron, Read by Soneela Nankani

Accidentally Engaged by Farah Heron, Read by Soneela Nankani

A Lively Contemporary Romance

By Behind the Mic | April 15, 2021

On the Literature of Rewilding… and the Need to Rewild Literature

On the Literature of Rewilding… and the Need to Rewild Literature

Phoebe Hamilton-Jones Finds Non-Human Perspectives in Max Porter, Sarah Hall, Daisy Johnson, and More

By Phoebe Hamilton Jones | April 14, 2021

Jonathan Lethem on the Rich Lives of Jaime Clarke’s Minor Literary Characters

Jonathan Lethem on the Rich Lives of Jaime Clarke’s Minor Literary Characters

“He has done more, even, than Vonnegut in setting
his characters free.”

By Jonathan Lethem | April 14, 2021

On Spite: The Pros and Cons of Being Deeply... Petty

On Spite: The Pros and Cons of Being Deeply... Petty

Simon McCarthy-Jones Offers a Brief History of
Small Human Vengeances

By Simon McCarthy-Jones | April 14, 2021

Bolu Babalola on Love as a Guiding Force That Illuminates Our Humanity

Bolu Babalola on Love as a Guiding Force That Illuminates Our Humanity

“I love romance very much. It's like the genre picked me.”

By Rasheeda Saka | April 14, 2021

Why is Maintaining Adult Friendships So Difficult?

Why is Maintaining Adult Friendships So Difficult?

Kristin van Ogtrop on the Ones That Get Away

By Kristin van Ogtrop | April 14, 2021

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