Top 5 and Why: Current Fatherhood Books
1. The Secrets of Happy Families: Improve Your Mornings, Tell Your Family History, Fight Smarter, Go Out and Play, and Much More Bruce Feiler’s “Secrets” tops our…
5 Takeaways from ‘Daily Rituals’: Serious Creatives and How They Make it Happen
“It’s no easy business to be simple.” Gustave Flaubert had a terrible time keeping his life and art simple in the ways he wanted them. Of…
A Bigger Picture: Claudio Saunt’s More Complete View of America in 1776
I just happened across an impressive interactive time map showing the loss of native American land year by year since 1776. It’s enthralling to stop the rapid progression…
Charles Wright: The Poet Laureate without a Program
“History handles our past like spoiled fruit.” If you haven’t discovered Charles Wright until now, he’s a great choice for U.S. poet laureate, and as an…
Extra Lives: Tom Bissell on Why Video Games Matter
“Are video games a worthy way to spend my time?” Tom Bissell’s journalistic, slightly nerdish quest to discover what is great and not-so-great about videogames and…
Italo Calvino Reading from Invisible Cities
Invisible Cities is Calvino at his thematic and structural best. For more about this amazing book check out his Top 5 and Why. The following excerpt was recorded…
One of the Best Fiction Works of All Time? The Book of Disquiet
“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.” The Book of Disquiet stays with you, doesn’t want to be consumed all in a rush, and is…
1 Scientific Discovery +1 Social Satire = In Search of Lost Neanderthal Genomes
“Neanderthals are the closest extinct relative of contemporary humans.” Has Svante Pääbo found the Neanderthal in all of us, and turned paleontology on its head? In 2010, researchers…
Daniel Pink on the Science Behind Motivation
“There is a mismatch between what science knows and what business does.” Daniel Pink, author of Drive and To Sell Is Human, makes a strong case for what…
Brian Christian’s The Most Human Human
“Today’s person spends way more time in front of screens. In fluorescent-lit rooms, in cubicles, being on one end or the other of an electronic data…
