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Let magazine editors onto "secure" chats during military ops? Sure. Let consumers buy great robo vacuums? Danger!

“This is clearly a third bodily system for the circulation of fluids,” in addition to the cardiovascular and lymphatic systems, says Rebecca Wells, a professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

A World War II Diary of Occupied Italy

Yes and no—the no part being the plot and characters (and the big horse); the yes part being the city and the siege.

Researchers let AI models run a simulated society. Claude was the safest—and Grok committed 180 crimes and went extinct within 4 days

I’m wondering if John Keats can’t shake us awake before we crumble to insensate beings, doom-scrolling, giving up on science, and accepting that people need to be defined by party affiliation first and as Americans second.

A personal collection of essays that blurs the line between literary criticism and personal memoir.

Set in the ruthless high society of Gilded Age New York, The House of Mirth traces the tragic downward spiral of Lily Bart, a beautiful but impoverished woman whose moral conscience repeatedly prevents her from securing a wealthy marriage for survival.

Unpublished works collected and translated by Peter Constantine

A former student travels to interview his 90ish professor for a magazine article. His recording device (an iPhone) breaks just before…

A short story about how to achieve empathy through compassion and imagination using the complexities of young children and adults as a prism.

God has become profoundly disillusioned with humanity—specifically our technological arrogance, moral failures, and the dangerous hubris of splitting the atom.

A pizza graphic representing how many slices of pie Americans are getting.

New Jersey Artist and Sculptor Anthony Triano (1928-97)

Three hours of incredible best-of BBC David Attenborough Nature features.

Making a poem with kindling is easy. Gather allusions and pine needles…

CBS caved, law firms caved, Tech giants caved. Colbert instead has the entire CBS building sucked into a green vortex, shrunk, and put into a snow globe

Section 46, Song of Myself, Walt Whitman

It’s time to stake a claim in the new $1.776 billion slush fund for those targeted unfairly by the government. I will accept nothing less than $5 million for: the fact that every day I have to be living with the shame of being an American; that my subscription to media outlets I had formerly enjoyed now are brim full with the evil committed by a salacious regime only moderately acquainted with the Constitution or the nation’s history; that their...

Tolstoy diary entry as a young man

a woman who died tragically in her early twenties during the 1970s and now serves as an ethereal death doula.

Short stories from renowned Chinese author Can Xue.

A collection of short stories.

Larry Levis brings raw emotion to his poetry; “To a Wall of Flame in a Steel Mill, Syracuse, New York, 1969” goes from zero to sixty in 3 seconds.

Labyrinthine masterpiece that captures the slow-motion collapse of a Hungarian collective farm.

A series of reflective essays about moving through the landscapes of the West Bank and Gaza region.

This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival....

Pablo Neruda poem.

Nero Golden, patriarch in his twilight, a Lear in a silk dressing gown, presiding over a trio of sons who embody current fractured anxieties.

A truly remarkable novel that begins with a tragic turn of events for the Steenwijk family