Elevate Your Everyday
I’ve been reading The Ritual Effect: From Habit to Ritual, Harness the Surprising Power of Everyday Actions by Michael Norton, so I’ve been thinking about my...
What are You Reading This Week? — June 13, 2024
Danika is out this week on what sounds to be a marvelous vacation (I heard there’s a treehouse involved), so I’ll be checking in with your...
It’s Lord Worldwide, Thank You Very Much: From the Editor’s Desk June 2024
Hello again, dear readers. I’m back with another peek over my shoulder at the bookish media I’m loving, excited about, or generally tickled by. Today, I...
Audible’s Top Audiobooks of 2024 So Far
‘Tis the season of naming the best books of 2024 so far, despite the fact we’re not yet half way through the year. Calendar niggling aside,...
Glynnis MacNicol on Marriage, Pleasure, and Orgasmic Narratives
In Glynnis MacNicol’s second memoir, I’m Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself, pleasure is political. The narrative follows the weeks MacNicol spent in Paris in late summer...
Driving Around San Francisco with a Famous Antiwar Hero
An Excerpt from 1974: A Personal History by Francine Prose San Francisco, winter 1974. There was less traffic then. At ten on a weekday night, Tony...
7 Magical Books Inspired by Korean Mythology
Korean mythology brims with everything from philosophy and political intrigue to glorious creatures. Fox shapeshifters with a penchant for male livers. Club-wielding goblins with an excess...
A Road Trip Through the Highways of America
Drinking coffee from a Styrofoam cup with chewed rim. Choosing hotel rooms based on which has the fewest number of 2 A.M. fights in the parking...
Trans Historical Fiction Books
Now more than ever it’s important for people to be able to see themselves in stories. Stories make us feel less alone. They show us that...
11 Compelling Nonfiction Audiobooks for Children
Make summer reading fun for the whole family with these action-packed adventures. THE CURSE OF EELGRASS BOG by Mary Averling, THE SCHOOL FOR INVISIBLE BOYS by...
