Adrianne Peterson, the manager of the Rancho Peñasquitos branch of the San Diego Public Library, was actually a little embarrassed...
Books
One reason books haven’t been particularly disruptable might be that many of the people looking to “fix” things couldn’t actually...
Ken Tucker reviews Robert McCormick's Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey, and Robert Mugge's Notes from the...
A few weeks ago, we asked NPR staffers to share their all-time favorite summer reads. Old, new, fiction, nonfiction —...
The new Apple TV+ series Silo is set in a massive underground complex full of mystery and danger. Screenwriter Rafael...
The Three Ages of WaterPeter Gleick PublicAffairs (2023)Water is vital to humans: our hearts and brains are both more than...
As an 80-year-old gay man who has fought the fight for equality longer than most have been alive, I was...
Blue MachineHelen Czerski Torva (2023)Few scientific subjects are so vast, and yet oceans “often seem invisible”, remarks physicist and broadcaster...
Cormac McCarthy, who died on Tuesday at the age of 89, was renowned for stark and violent novels of the...
All the baby-sitters are grownup and . . . still babysitting? Makes sense—they’re millennials and will never own houses or have job security...