2023 - To Read

Signals from the environment, such as those detected by your sense organs, have no inherent psychological meaning. Your brain creates it.

Shame is a critical collective skill aimed at protecting groups of people from harm. Used improperly, it does harm instead.

Russian artist Helga Stentzel finds the shapes of animals in chance washing-line juxtapositions

Searching for truth in unorthodox ways can be a valuable exercise. But Anatoly Fomenko's alternate world history is just plain weird.

The act of writing for a broad audience poses a predicament for anyone who recognizes the temptations of pride and self-aggrandizement. But it creates particular risks for scholars, whose professional commitments, properly understood, demand humility...

The Hitchhiker 1937, by Robert Gwathmey (1903 – 1988)

Immersive learning engages the senses, allowing employees to watch, listen, and interact within the learning experience.

Micro is a podcast for short but powerful writing. Each week features a few short pieces of fiction, creative nonfiction, and/or poetry read by the author. In the accompanying interview series, 5 Q…

Gun violence and the American way of life.

How to unlock your brain’s natural antidepressants.

The following first appeared in Lit Hub’s The Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. * Maybe five years ago I read a novel in which a man drowns in a lake, and, a few minutes later, his body is …

How the long and strange history of wiretapping continues to shape how Americans conceive of surveillance and privacy.

Teaching always enlists students in a vision of the future.

Today was the last day of school for my kids. They both started new schools this year (high school and middle school). It’s been a weird few years and a bad few days. My son chose not to atte…

In “Top Gun: Maverick,” the superstar holds the line for relatable humanity in a type of movie that has less and less use for flesh-and-blood people.

The musicians recreate a photo from their wedding – a day of panic, pasta and paparazzi

In a major advance, scientists have found a new and groundbreaking way to force electrons to flow only in one direction in a superconductor.

‘Two things – beauty and horror – are especially lasting.’

Annie Sand suggests that for us to understand others’ pain and communicate our own, we need to create some new metaphors based on our individual perception and experience.

There is no question that land is being lost to the sea — it is an inevitable part of climate change. However, as Erica Gies reports in this fascinating essay for Hakai, in some areas of the UK, the Environment Agency is not only acknowledging this — but helping the sea to win. For that […]

This episode of Artists On Writers | Writers On Artists reunites two old friends—novelist Elif Batuman, and artist Sibel Horada—who began their conversation years ago when they met in Istanbul. Here, they commiserate about the uncomfortable relevance of Russian novels, how archeology reveals something about the present time, and ways to leave enough room inside a work for readers and viewers to find their own way inside of it, as well as many other topics. Batuman’s newest book, Either/Or, is out now with Penguin Press. Horada’s work is currently on view in the 5th Mardin Biennial, which is up through June 20.Elif Batuman’s first novel, The Idiot, was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize, and was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction in the UK. She is also the author of The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, which was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism. She has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2010 and holds a PhD in comparative literature from Stanford University.Based in Istanbul, artist Sibel Horada focuses on collective and personal histories with an interest in urban, archaeological and ecological cultures. She investigates memories of erasure with stories that weave together strange, coincidental details. For her, memory is not only the act of recollection, but also a process of reproduction and transformation. Using text and forms, she materializes her encounters in poetic sculptures and installations. Horada has shown in many institutions in Turkey and Europe, including MAC museum Vienna, Depo Istanbul, Ludwigsburg Kunstverein, Hannover Kunstverein and Matadero Madrid.Artists On Writers Writers On Artists brings together luminaries in the fields of art and literature to have the conversations they themselves wish to have. This monthly video series is a joint production of Artforum and Bookforum.

ROBERT J. BALL What does it mean to promote Classics to the public?

The album takes its title from the Isoviha period — when Finland was under Russian occupation during the 1700s.

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Darwin and Newton acknowledged their debt to other cultures. Why don’t we?

The long read: From ancient Egyptian cubits to fitness tracker apps, humankind has long been seeking ever more ways to measure the world – and ourselves. But what is this doing to us?

Chatter occurs when your inner voice dwells on harmful thoughts and emotions. To harness chatter, adopt a calmer, broader perspective.

An expansive mix of bottom heavy rhythms from the Darker Than Wax affiliate.