The Edge of the Empire
Travel ancient Britannia in this excerpt from Bronwen Riley’s new book
The Jazz of Physics
Read an excerpt from Stephon Alexander’s book about the music of the universe
67 Shots
Read an excerpt from Howard Means’s new history of the Kent State shootings
Black Hole Blues
Read an excerpt from Janna Levin’s new book about the soundtrack of the universe
Nothing Ever Dies
Read an excerpt from Viet Thanh Nguyen’s new book about Vietnam and the memory of war
The Mechanical Horse
Read an excerpt from Margaret Guroff’s new history of the bicycle in America
The Rarest Bird in the World
Read an excerpt from Vernon R. L. Head’s new memoir about the search for the Nechisar Nightjar
Almost Home
Read an excerpt from Githa Hariharan’s new collection of travel essays
Graveyard Clay and The Dirty Dust
Compare two translations of “Cré na Cille,” Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s Irish masterpiece
The Profiteers
Read an excerpt from Sally Denton’s book about the world-building Bechtel Corporation
