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
When You’re Craving Oddities: 5 Books You May Have
Missed in July
Bethanne Patrick Recommends Deirdre Sinnott,
Jeffrey Ford, and Others
Behind the Invention of the Cryptosystem That Revolutionized Tech
Ian Stewart on the Revolutionary Ideas of Clifford Cocks
Shelby Cole on Climate Grief and Indigenous Land and Water Stewardship
This Week from the Reading Women Podcast
On Robin McKinley’s Fantasies and the Books That Are “Just Yours”
This Week on the NewberyTart Podcast
Christopher Gray on Hustling to the Top… with an Altruistic Mindset
In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On
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.”
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
The Ugliness of Comic Sans Has a Practical Use
Jonah Lehrer on the Easy Recall of Certain “Disfluent” Fonts
One in a Million: Where Were You When You Heard that Aaliyah Died?
Kathy Iandoli on the Impact of Generational Celebrity Deaths
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