Books, Arts, and Culture

Calling science nerds, tinkerers, and wielders of fun facts! If you are looking to feed your voracious appetite for all things science with a fiction or...

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I’ve had a lot of time to think lately. Like many of you, I’m not a huge fan of too much mental downtime, though I would love if my brain...

“Elucubrate.” “Logorrhea.” “Esqualumose.” They’re not words that come up often in casual conversation. But if you’re one of the more than 500,000 viewers who tune into...

My brother Patrick’s apartment is, at any/every moment, home to 15–20 books on Lou Reed. I like to count them when I visit, wondering if the...

If your usual tricks—wandering aimlessly around a bookstore or library waiting for a book to leap out into your arms from the bookshelves, or putting out...

One of my favorite magazines is the creativity-based Uppercase. This quarterly publication offers a look at various artists, art forms, and design across the world, and...

A gorgeously illustrated collection of twelve original stories by the New York Times bestselling author of The Hazel Wood and The Night Country. Journey into the...

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“I have built a monument more durable than bronze.” — Horace 1.Inconceivable that a man with a disposition like Ben Jonson’s wouldn’t take an offered drink,...