Just when we need it, ‘Humans’ reminds us what it means to be human

“Humans of New York” author Brandon Stanton shares 16 photos from his globe-spanning new book. Continue reading at 'The Washington Post'

[ The Washington Post | 2020-10-06 13:53:03 UTC ]

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After 200,000 years, we’re still trying to figure out what humanity is all about

In “The Dawn of Everything,” two scientists set out to discover where inequality began Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2021-11-26 13:00:00 UTC ]
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Ann Patchett’s ‘These Precious Days’ is a beautiful reminder of what’s important

Patchett’s collection is built around an essay she wrote about an unexpected friendship. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2021-11-26 11:43:51 UTC ]
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Diversity means everybody

The Bradford Literature Festival was created out of imperatives that were unashamedly simple. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-11-26 07:02:52 UTC ]
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Bodley Head pre-empts 'landmark' account of human history by Galor

The Bodley Head has pre-empted a "landmark" account of human history by Oded Galor. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-11-18 09:20:49 UTC ]
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, who described the ‘flow’ of human creativity, dies at 87

The psychologist wrote best-selling books about focused mental and physical activity as a route to happiness. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2021-10-30 21:45:11 UTC ]
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Selma Blair's Mean Baby memoir coming from Virago in 2022

Virago will publish Mean Baby, the memoir of actress Selma Blair, exploring her career, struggles with addiction, life with multiple sclerosis (MS) and advocacy alongside her role as a mother.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-10-26 09:44:11 UTC ]
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How science fiction can inspire humanity’s response to the climate crisis – podcast

The audio version of an in-depth article on how science fiction’s hopes and fears can inspire humanity’s response to the climate crisis. Continue reading at The Conversation

[ The Conversation | 2021-10-11 09:13:49 UTC ]
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Animals and humans on a collision course (sometimes literally)

Quirky tales of beasts just doing what comes naturally — and getting in our way. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2021-09-24 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Holly Smale | 'Change happens one story at a time, reminding the world what autism is from the inside'

Holly Smale, bestselling author of the Geek Girl series, discusses how autistic characters, and authors, should no longer be seen as ‘niche’ Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-09-23 18:27:19 UTC ]
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In Richard Powers’s New Novel, Hope for a Grieving Kid and Planet May Lurk in the Human Brain

The Pulitzer Prize winner’s latest book, “Bewilderment,” features a widowed father whose troubled son is transformed by a novel neurofeedback therapy with profound implications for the human race. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2021-09-21 09:00:08 UTC ]
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Students from abroad are back. What that means to the US.

Rajika Bhandari talks about her memoir “America Calling: A Foreign Student in a Country of Possibility” and how students from other countries benefit the U.S. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2021-09-13 14:26:03 UTC ]
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Shakespeare still matters. A new book reminds us why.

Robert McCrum’s “Shakespearean” shows how the Bard speaks to many kinds of people in many different ways. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2021-09-09 13:00:00 UTC ]
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A Human Cloning Error and Existential Questions Fuel This Science Fiction Romp

In Matthew FitzSimmons’s speculative murder mystery “Constance,” the title character’s consciousness is mistakenly downloaded into a clone. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2021-08-24 19:55:19 UTC ]
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“The Rock Eaters” Uses Magical Realism to Explore What It Means to Be the Other

The stories in The Rock Eaters often have an elastic relationship with reality, familiar political landscapes or emotional struggles warped by the uncanny. Some stories fall more explicitly within the bounds of science fiction or fantasy, but most show us a world nearly known, but not quite. In... Continue reading at Electric Literature

[ Electric Literature | 2021-08-13 11:00:00 UTC ]
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Redefining What It Means to Be a Horse Girl

It could have been soccer or tap dancing, it could have been Dungeons & Dragons or Model United Nations, but for editor Halimah Marcus and the contributors of the new anthology Horse Girls: Recovering, Aspiring, and Devoted Riders Redefine the Iconic Bond, what stamped them most profoundly... Continue reading at Electric Literature

[ Electric Literature | 2021-08-04 11:00:00 UTC ]
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‘Damnation Spring’ beautifully explores the human cost of environmental damage

Ash Davidson’s debut novel delves into the complex relationship among people who love the trees that are also their livelihood. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2021-08-02 16:47:33 UTC ]
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Graphic Novelists Who Show Us What Loneliness Means

In her latest Graphic Content column, Hillary Chute looks at new books from Kristen Radtke and Lizzy Stewart, as well as a first graphic novel from Anne Carson. Continue reading at The New York Times

[ The New York Times | 2021-07-29 09:00:05 UTC ]
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Facebook, Fox, and what ‘killing people’ means in a pandemic

Last Thursday, with confirmed cases of COVID-19 again rising across the US, Dr. Vivek Murthy, the surgeon general, issued his first advisory since the Biden administration took office: health mis- and disinformation, he said, has prolonged the pandemic, not least by exposing Americans to... Continue reading at Columbia Journalism Review

[ Columbia Journalism Review | 2021-07-21 12:37:08 UTC ]
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Poster artists remind us what makes national parks worth visiting

“The Art of the National Parks” is a collection of screen-printed posters portraying the Badlands and beyond. Continue reading at The Washington Post

[ The Washington Post | 2021-07-20 12:00:00 UTC ]
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The True Meaning of Hamlet’s ‘Frailty, Thy Name is Woman’

‘Frailty, thy name is woman’ is one of dozens of famous expressions that have entered common speech, but which originated in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The old quip about Hamlet, that it’s ‘too full of quotations’, wittily sums up the play’s influence on not just English literature but on the... Continue reading at Interesting Literature

[ Interesting Literature | 2021-06-24 17:00:06 UTC ]
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