On the Link Between Great Thinking and Obsessive Walking

On the Link Between Great Thinking and Obsessive Walking

From Charles Darwin to Toni Morrison, Jeremy DeSilva Looks at
Our Need to Move

By Jeremy DeSilva | April 19, 2021

In Praise of the Graceless Literary Exit: A Reading List

In Praise of the Graceless Literary Exit: A Reading List

KT Sparks Catalogues the Truly Messy, Human Moments

By KT Sparks | April 19, 2021

On the Meeting Place of Scientific Knowledge and Indigenous Ways of Knowing

On the Meeting Place of Scientific Knowledge and Indigenous Ways of Knowing

This Week on the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | April 19, 2021

Mustafa Akyol on the Islamic Enlightenment

Mustafa Akyol on the Islamic Enlightenment

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on the Keen On Podcast

By Keen On | April 19, 2021

Got £2.75 million to spare? Now you can buy Agatha Christie’s house.

Got £2.75 million to spare? Now you can buy Agatha Christie’s house.

By Walker Caplan | April 16, 2021

Here are the best reviewed books of the week.

Here are the best reviewed books of the week.

By Book Marks | April 16, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Shampoo Effect
  • The Midnight Special: The Secret Prison History of American Music
  • Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep
  • On the Origin of Sex: The Weird and Wonderful Science of Reproduction
  • Devotions
  • Thundering Waters: The Toxic Legacy of Niagara Falls

Watch Spalding Gray perform Our Town’s legendary opening monologue.

By Walker Caplan | April 16, 2021

The first wave of pandemic novels is beginning in earnest, with Gary Shteyngart at the helm.

By Walker Caplan | April 16, 2021

An ode to Paul Bettany's mellifluous, magisterial turn as Chaucer in A Knight's Tale.

By Emily Temple | April 16, 2021

How the American Civil War Gave Walt Whitman a Call to Action

How the American Civil War Gave Walt Whitman a Call to Action

Mark Edmundson on the Great American Poet as Defender of Democracy

By Mark Edmundson | April 16, 2021

How Black Queer Readers and Writers Nourish the Future

How Black Queer Readers and Writers Nourish the Future

Alexis Pauline Gumbs on the Power of Ancestral Connections

By Alexis Pauline Gumbs | April 16, 2021

On the “Girl Stunt Reporters” Who Pioneered a New Genre of Investigative Journalism

On the “Girl Stunt Reporters” Who Pioneered a New Genre of Investigative Journalism

Kim Todd Remembers the Fearless Women Who Changed the Trajectory of Memoir and Reporting

By Kim Todd | April 16, 2021

The Challenge of Editing a <br>Beat Legend

The Challenge of Editing a
Beat Legend

Garrett Caples on Working with Michael McClure

By Garrett Caples | April 16, 2021

On Helping Tell a Palestinian Story as a White American Jew

On Helping Tell a Palestinian Story as a White American Jew

Penina Eilberg-Schwartz Wonders What It Means to Share Space

By Penina Eilberg-Schwartz | April 16, 2021

Searching for Answers to Everest’s Greatest Mystery Among the Artifacts of Its Early Climbers

Searching for Answers to Everest’s Greatest Mystery Among the Artifacts of Its Early Climbers

Mark Synnott on George Mallory, Sandy Irvine, and a Very Flimsy Rope

By Mark Synnott | April 16, 2021

Interview with an Indie Press: Two Dollar Radio

Interview with an Indie Press: Two Dollar Radio

When You Start a Press—and a Family—at the Same Time

By Corinne Segal | April 16, 2021

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