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What Phones Are Doing to Reading
For the past five years or so, I’ve read books on my phone. The practice started...
Eight Cookbooks Worth Reading Cover to Cover
Flag dishes you want to make, or don’t: The point of this practice is pleasure, not...
Book Review: A New Chapter in the Quest for a Longer Life
Can scientists unlock the keys to a longer life? The field is flush with hope and...
Writers withdraw from PEN America literary awards in support of Gaza
Authors and translators say PEN America has ‘had no criticism of American complicity in the bombardment...
Quick! Someone Get This Book a Doctor.
Inside the book conservation lab at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
An Archive of Vividly Illustrated Japanese Schoolbooks, from the 1800s to World War II
If you want to appreciate Japanese books, it helps to be able to read Japanese books....
Free: Download the The Anarchist’s Tool Chest, The Anarchist’s Design Book, The Anarchist’s Workbench & Other Woodworking Texts
For Christopher Schwarz, American anarchism isn’t “about bombs and leather jackets; it’s about being an independent...
Salman Rushdie Strikes Back
In a new memoir, the author reckons with the attack that nearly took his life.
Bestselling Author Robin Cook Partners With Euro Gang On ‘Bellevue’ Film, Medical Procedural
EXCLUSIVE: Physician turned #1 NYT bestselling author Robin Cook is partnering with Euro Gang Entertainment, the...
6 Badass Librarians Who Changed History
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How the Year 2440 Was Imagined in a 1771 French Sci-Fi Novel
Many Americans might think of Rip Van Winkle as the first man to nod off and...
Michael Cook on Iran - Marginal REVOLUTION
Our primary concern in this chapter will be Iran, though toward the end we will shift...
*The Carnation Revolution* - Marginal REVOLUTION
The author is Alex Fernandes, and the subtitle is The Day Portugal’s Dictatorship Fell. A very...
‘I can’t explain it’: Salman Rushdie says his survival in knife attack was a miracle
Despite his lack of faith, the author believes ‘something happened that was not supposed to happen’...
Commuter town an hour from London named the UK's 3rd coolest place to live
With stunning river views and an assortment of celebrity residents, you'd really feel you'd made it...
The Country That Tried to Control Sex
Clair Wills’s memoir is a timely warning that sexual morality can be enforced only with violence.
When Dementia Strikes a Beloved Writer
Beloved Nobel Prize-winning writer Gabriel García Márquez wanted his last book — which he wrote as...
Six Cult Classics You Have to Read
As word of mouth about a book spreads, it begins to spark with a special kind...
Robert Whaples reviews *GOAT* - Marginal REVOLUTION
An excellent piece, here is one excerpt I enjoyed in particular: Cowen reads the John Maynard...
Prince Harry told Queen to 'suck it up' over Meghan, claims royal author
The royal author claimed that the late monarch was left "stunned"
