Making stuff up is harder, stranger, and occasionally more dangerous than it looks. Seven stories that explore the world of constructed languages.
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Daylight Savings Time: A (Beach) Reading List for the Lighthearted
I hear that there are people in the world who prefer lighthearted stories. Lovely meet-cutes where no one gets hurt and people even fall in love, where there is serendipity like there used to be before the internet, where good things happen to good people. Cozy mysteries that involve a cat—or possibly, as in one […]
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Brave New World: A Reading List About the Dark Future
Five stories that make Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel feel like nonfiction.
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The People Who Know Too Much: A Reading List on Amateur Experts
The people whose private fixations become a way of seeing, remembering, and caring for the world.
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Friction: A Reading List on Why Inconvenience Can Be Meaningful
Five stories that explore the risks and rewards of life’s little hurdles.
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‘This Was Our Life’: A Reading List on Multigenerational Caregiving
Five stories on the overwhelming, profound art of caring for other people.
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Holding Pattern: A Reading List on Waiting . . .
Everyone waits. No one is spared the waiting room, one way or another. Seven stories on an essential human condition.
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Long Live the Rom-Com
Love, Actually, Never Died: A reading list on the evolution of the romantic comedy.
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Seeing is Believing: A Reading List on Making Meaning from Data
Eight stories on the power and beauty of visual communication.
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‘Actually Really Sacred’: A George Saunders Reading List
Nine essays and interviews from literature’s favorite laureate of compassion.