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by Julia Langbein

Penelope did not write American Mermaid for fame or fortune- she is quite content with her life teaching highschool eng…

by Rick Rubin

Many famed music producers are known for a particular sound that has its day. Rick Rubin is known for something else: c…

by Bernie Sanders

It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism presents a vision that extends beyond the promises of past campaigns to reveal wha…

by Donna Leon

In the thirty-second installment of Donna Leon’s bestselling series, a connection to Guido Brunetti’s own youthful past…

by Dacher Keltner

Up until fifteen years ago, there was no science of awe, the feeling we experience when we encounter vast mysteries tha…

by Carlo Rovelli

Over two millennia ago, the prescient insights of Anaximander paved the way for cosmology, physics, geography, meteorol…

by Claire Jimenez

The Ramirez women of Staten Island orbit around absence. When thirteen‑year‑old middle child Ruthy disappeared after tr…

by Rebecca Makkai

It’s been over twenty years since Bodie Kane graduated from Granby Academy when she is invited to return to her boardin…

by Katherine May

“Enchantment cannot be destroyed. It waits patiently for us to remember that we need it.” Feeling drained, anxious and…

by Catriona Ward

Rob’s childhood was not normal. It’s taken her years to carefully construct and curate a facade of normalcy, which she…

by Sarah Winman

It’s 1944, somewhere in the Italian countryside, when Evelyn Skinner and Ulysses Temper first meet. He’s a 24 year-old…

by Jessamine Chan

Frida has had a bad year. She gave birth to her daughter, discovered her husband was cheating, and had her heart broken…