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    A Small Press Book We Love:
    Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

     
    By Jonny Diamond  March 4, 2025
    Blindness

    An Invisibility Cloak of the Self: Jane Tara on Being Told She Was Going Blind in Her Forties

    By Jane Tara  February 26, 2025
    The Natural World

    Winter is Coming: The Changing of the Seasons Through a Mastodon’s Eyes

    By Riley Black  February 24, 2025
    Psychology

    How the Twin Desires of Connection and Autonomy Motivate Us to Success

    By William von Hippel  February 20, 2025
    Language

    What Our First and Last Words Reveal About the Way We Express Ourselves

    By Michael Erard  February 13, 2025
    The Hub

    The first issue of Reader’s Digest from 1922 is both shocking and relevant.

    By James Folta  February 7, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    The Arctic

    How a Norwegian Scientist Used Unconventional Means to Reach the North Pole

    By Neil Shubin  February 6, 2025
    Happiness

    The Pursuit of Happiness: How Do We Find Purpose and Fulfillment in a Chaotic World?

    By Shigehiro Oishi  February 5, 2025
    Psychology

    How Many Licks? On Tootsie Pops, Desire and the Science of Delayed Gratification

    By Sarah Perry  February 4, 2025
    Nonfiction

    From Bowie to Baseball to Bitcoin: Ten Nonfiction Books to Check Out in March

    Featuring Titles by Russell Shorto, Ben Ratliff, Hannah Selinger, and More

    By Literary Hub  February 28, 2025
    Mathematics

    How the Islamic Golden Age Helped Create Modern Mathematics

    By Raúl Rojas  January 15, 2025
    Prehistory

    Out of Africa: Discovering Our Shared Human Family, From Toumai to Turkana Boy

    By Zeinab Badawi  January 15, 2025
    Neuroscience

    An Emotional Time Machine: How Our Sense of Smell Can Unlock Childhood Memories

    By Jonas Olofsson  January 13, 2025
    Family Histories

    From Red Dust to Distrust: On the Unhealed Wounds of Nuclear Testing

    Emily Yates-Doerr Explores a Family History of Illness, Government Cover-Ups and Institutional Skepticism

    By Emily Yates-Doerr  January 9, 2025
    Best of 2024

    Lit Hub’s 50 Noteworthy Nonfiction Books of 2024

    By Literary Hub  December 24, 2024
    Psychology

    The Green-Eyed Monster: On the Benefits and Pitfalls of Experiencing Envy

    By Dr. Guy Leschziner  December 11, 2024
    Illness

    An Ageist Disease: On Living in Fear of Alzheimer’s

    By Andrea Gilats  November 21, 2024
    The Moon

    “Moonstruck.” How Myths of Lunar Power Continue to Fascinate Us

    Kate Golembiewski Explores the Long History of Associating Madness With the Full Moon

    By Kate Golembiewski  November 20, 2024
    The Natural World

    Oceans That Glow: On the Timeless Beauty of Bioluminescence

    By Alan Lightman  November 20, 2024
    Founding Fathers

    Benjamin Franklin: As Much Scientist As Statesman

    By Richard Munson  November 14, 2024
    Animals

    Witnesses to a Changing World: On the Longevity and Endurance of the Greenland Shark

    By Katherine Rundell  November 12, 2024
    Science Writing

    Memories in the Marsh: A Love Letter to Exploring, Studying, and Creating Art in Nature

    Anna Farro Henderson Reflects on Romance, Distance, and Change as She Studies a Maine Marshland

    By Anna Farro Henderson  November 11, 2024
    Dinosaurs

    The Great Dying: How Mass Extinction Made the Dinosaurs

    By Armin Schmitt  November 6, 2024
    Psychedelics

    Anatomy of a Bad Trip: On the Less-Than-Magical Side of Magic Mushrooms

    By Eugenia Bone  October 23, 2024
    Human Behavior

    Laugh a Little: Why We All Should Be Telling More Jokes

    By Alison Wood Brooks  January 24, 2025
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