2+ day, 9+ hour ago  (105+ words) What do literary agents do? Your title, Middlemen, is somewhat misleading. What effects have agents had on contemporary literature? What were the biggest challenges in writing this book? How did you manage to peel back the curtain? Why should everyday…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago  (672+ words) You're an applied mathematician who once studied insect swarms. How did you end up writing a book about racial injustice in the criminal legal system? Applied mathematics is about using quantitative tools to solve real-world problems. I just changed which…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago  (105+ words) What is Bitter Honey about, at its heart? Many people think of bees as a symbol of nature or spring. What does Bitter Honey reveal about their complex role in our modern food system? Why is forage loss'the disappearance of…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago  (333+ words) Pexels / Marek Piwnicki By Eleanor Johnson May 18, 2026 This is a folk horror witch film about severe, abject child abuse. And as we'll also see, it's about resistance to that kind of abuse, and the desire to find meaning and beauty…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (261+ words) Unsplash / Dominic Sansotta By David R. Samson May 15, 2026 Night should have been one of the greatest dangers our ancestors ever faced. And yet humans became one of the most successful species on Earth while doing something especially odd: we appear to…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (330+ words) By Eleanor Johnson May 14, 2026 Something must have been in the air in 2022. In the same year that You Won't be Alone came keening gloriously out of Macedonia, Bones and All loped its achingly beautiful way out of Hollywood. For those…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (90+ words) By Valerie Tiberius May 12, 2026 Valerie Tiberius is professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota. Her books include What Do You Want Out of Life? A Philosophical Guide to Figuring Out What Matters (Princeton), Well-Being as Value Fulfillment: How We…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (576+ words) Tracing the origins of Britain's current malaise to the abandonment of social democracy ebook (EPUB via app) ebook (PDF via app) What has happened to Britain? As drivers on its roads can attest, it is the pothole capital of Europe....

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (238+ words) What is this book really about " and why Disneyland? There's a deep irony at the heart of the book: Americans in the 1950s and '60s were terrified of automation eliminating their jobs, yet they paid admission to watch robots perform and to…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (185+ words) You're a historian of scholarship, of ideas, what attracted you to conservation, which seems so practical and hands-on? Conservation to most people is something very practical. You bring out its intellectual dimension. Does this have anything to do with your…...