On the Road

An excerpt from Vagabond: Venice Beach, Slab City and Points in Between by Ceilidh Michelle

Vagabond: Venice Beach, Slab City, and Points in Between by Ceilidh Michelle

The Reading Hordes

An excerpt from The Library: A Fragile History by Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen

<em>The Library: A Fragile History</em> Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen

Writing in the Wings

An excerpt from A Story That Happens: On Playwriting, Childhood, & Other Traumas by Dan O’Brien

A Story That Happens: On Playwriting, Childhood, & Other Traumas Dan O’Brien

The Word—and Weird—of God

An excerpt from A Most Peculiar Book: The Inherent Strangeness of the Bible by Kristen Swenson

Jayne Ross

Second-Class Students No More

An excerpt from Point of Reckoning: The Fight for Racial Justice at Duke University by Theodore D. Segal

Point of Reckoning: The Fight for Racial Justice at Duke University Theodore D. Segal

Filling in the Blanks

An excerpt from How Schools Really Matter: Why Our Assumption About Schools and Inequality Is Mostly Wrong by Douglas B. Downey

How Schools Really Matter: Why Our Assumption About Schools and Inequality Is Mostly Wrong by Douglas B. Downey

A Writer by Nature

An excerpt from World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Home Is Where the HOA Is

An excerpt from The Sprawl by Jason Diamond

The Sprawl by Jason Diamond

Tolerance in a Dark Place

An excerpt from Plague Years: A Doctor’s Journey Through the AIDS Crisis by Ross A. Slotten

Plague Years: A Doctor's Journey Through the AIDS Crisis Ross A. Slotten

A Lifetime in Verse

An excerpt from Land’s End: New and Selected Poems by Gail Mazur

Land’s End: New and Selected Poems by Gail Mazur

The Firebrand and the First Lady

Read an excerpt from Patricia Bell-Scott’s book about Eleanor Roosevelt and Pauli Murray

Five Dollars and a Pork Chop Sandwich

Read an excerpt from Mary Frances Berry’s new book about vote buying

The Society of Genes

Read an excerpt from Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher’s new book on evolutionary biology

Philip Sparrow Tells All

Read an excerpt from the lost essays of Samuel Steward

Unruly Equality

Read an excerpt from Andrew Cornell’s new history of anarchism

Masters of Empire

Read an excerpt from Michael A. McDonnell’s new book about Great Lakes Indians

One Child

Read an excerpt from Sarah Conley’s new book about the morality of having children in our imperiled world

Hamburgers in Paradise

Read an excerpt from Louise O. Fresco’s new book about the story of food

Database of Dreams

Read an excerpt from Rebecca Lemov’s new book about the prehistory of Big Data

The White Road

Read an excerpt from Edmund de Waal’s new book about porcelain

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