The Honorable Mentions for the 2019 Reading Women Award

The Honorable Mentions for the 2019 Reading Women Award

Our Women on the Ground, Know My Name,
The Yellow House, and more

By Reading Women | October 30, 2019

Albert Camus on the Responsibility of the Artist

Albert Camus on the Responsibility of the Artist

Artists Should Not Doubt the Place of Creativity Amidst the Politics of Society

By Albert Camus | October 29, 2019

Andrea Long Chu on Desire, Weak Love, and Modern Trans Identity

Andrea Long Chu on Desire, Weak Love, and Modern Trans Identity

The Author of Females: A Concern, in Conversation with Eric Newman

By Eric Newman | October 29, 2019

Reyna Grande on Translating Her Own Book Into Spanish

Reyna Grande on Translating Her Own Book Into Spanish

How an Immigrant Can Lose Touch With Her Mother Tongue

By Reyna Grande | October 29, 2019

How to Plant a Garden Like Emily Dickinson's

How to Plant a Garden Like Emily Dickinson's

Milkweed, Hollyhock, and a Little Bit of Color

By Marta McDowell | October 29, 2019

Ken Follett on the Restoration of Notre Dame After the French Revolution

Ken Follett on the Restoration of Notre Dame After the French Revolution

Architect Viollet‑le‑Duc Didn't Want to Imitate His Medieval Predecessors

By Ken Follett | October 29, 2019

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The Cultural Encyclopedia of Mushrooms That We Need Right Now

By Lawrence Millman and Amy Jean Porter | October 29, 2019

The Astro Poets: A Field Guide to Scorpios

By Alex Dimitrov and Dorothea Lasky | October 29, 2019

Why Thousands Are Protesting in the Streets of Chile

By Carlos Labbé and Mónica Ramón Ríos | October 28, 2019

The Impassable Divides of the Prison Visiting Room

The Impassable Divides of the Prison Visiting Room

John Edgar Wideman Visits His Brother, Faruq

By John Edgar Wideman | October 28, 2019

The Strangest Questions Ever Asked of New York City Librarians

The Strangest Questions Ever Asked of New York City Librarians

Is It True There's No Such Thing as a Stupid Question?

By New York Publc Library | October 28, 2019

John Hodgman: The Time Everyone Said I Looked Like Hitler

John Hodgman: The Time Everyone Said I Looked Like Hitler

On Being Typecast as a Brutal Tyrant

By John Hodgman | October 28, 2019

What Would a World With Less Work Look Like?

What Would a World With Less Work Look Like?

Charlie Tyson on the Philosophy of Idleness and Imagining the Impossible

By Charlie Tyson | October 28, 2019

In Pursuit of the Elusive Spanish Forger

In Pursuit of the Elusive Spanish Forger

Lydia Pyne on One of the Great Art Criminals of All Time

By Lydia Pyne | October 28, 2019

If You Think There's a Lot of Trash on Earth, Just Go to Outer Space

If You Think There's a Lot of Trash on Earth, Just Go to Outer Space

We've Managed to Float 6,000 Tons of Junk Into the Sky!

By Alice Gorman | October 28, 2019

This Mexico City Artist Created an Instagram-Based Library

This Mexico City Artist Created an Instagram-Based Library

Natalie Baur Visited Pedro Reyes to Find Out How it Works

By Natalie Baur | October 28, 2019

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