“People have notions of angels, that they look like people, Tito Papel had thought many times—and in many way this depiction of them is true—but what they never get right is their skin, which, with their tiny feathers, resemble more tall, beakless birds.”
Ten Books Chosen by Samantha Power
The writer and humanitarian picks Ralph Ellison’s masterpiece on racism and exclusion, a Nigerian classic by Chinua Achebe, and a wrenching piece of reportage on Hiroshima.
Top Ten Books of 2020
We often look to year-end lists for a distillation or reflection of our collective experience, and this year it’s difficult to look so directly into that mirror. But books are still a slow business and one reads recent releases half-remembering that in most cases these words were written more than a year ago. This year’s […]
An Epic Libation
A toddy inspired by some of the elements of Beowulf: smoke, fire, honey, and dark water, designed for drinking in your own lair while you make your way through the last month of this year.
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
We won’t call these children’s books, because – really? – any adult worth their salt will cherish them as much as any kid.
Living by Night
“Thinking is dimmed when familiar forms of reality disappear. This is not a loss. Long periods of inner silence favor clearings, they let the light in, the flooding, the blinding, the bedazzlement”
“Classic/Freestyle”
“I couldn’t trick my brain
into believing the hills
were descents so I just stared
at the steep grades
until I was up close.” – Josh Kalscheur
Book Now for the Holidays
From Samin Nosrat’s recommendation of a cookbook to read in bed, to Greta Gerwig’s patron saint – Joan Didion, and a collection of canine poems that Isaac Mizrahi is taking to his desert island.
Bro! This is the Beowulf we’ve been waiting for
A marathon reading of a new translation of Beowulf by Maria Dahavana Headley presented over 25 days and featuring Alan Cumming, Bill T. Jones, Neil Gaiman, Justin Vivian Bond, Laurie Anderson, Ari Shapiro, Jeff VanderMeer, Sara Quin, Diane Cook, Brontez, and many more.
A Jan Morris Primer
The poet Eileen Myles, who selected Conundrum as one of her ten favorite books, wrote that “to read this great travel writer’s account of transition is to understand the word ‘journey’ truly.”
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