Thought Experimenter
Will AI really make our world better?
By Sam Kean Monday, April 1, 2024
The Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future with Robots by Daniela Rus and Gregory Mone
My Name Is Emily
What we call ourselves—and what
others call us—can be both a burden and a gift
By Emily Bernard Thursday, March 28, 2024
“Said Hanrahan” by John O’Brien
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, March 26, 2024
Lunching With Rabi
An afternoon spent in the company of an illustrious physicist
By Jay Neugeboren Friday, March 22, 2024
Invisible Ink
Giving center page to an era’s forgotten writers
By Teri Ellen Cross Davis Thursday, March 21, 2024
Shakespeare’s Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance by Ramie Targoff
“The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Island Royalty
A new biography of a Caribbean revolutionary
By Madison Smartt Bell Monday, January 13, 2025
The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christopheby Marlene L. Daut
The Writer in the Family
The fiction of E. L. Doctorow gave a young man hope of connecting his father and his literary hero
By Jonathan Liebson Wednesday, January 8, 2025
The Weight of a Stone
Searching for stability in an erratic world led Oliver Sacks and other writers to the realms of geology
By Megan Craig Thursday, January 2, 2025
