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…
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…
“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…
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…
“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…
“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…
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…
“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…
“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…
“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…
“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…