Common octopus (Octopus vulgaris).

Best of Suggested Readings 2021

Well-researched stories about octopus dreams, lost soil, reproductive resistance, and more from publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Eumillipes persephone

Black Spartacus, Great Books, and bell hooks

Well-researched stories from Hyperallergic, Aeon, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Louis Armstrong, c. 1945

Floating Cities, Trans History, and Jazz in Ghana

Well-researched stories from Atlas Obscura, The Atlantic, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Two silhouettes of faces with squiggly lines between them

Mind-Reading, New Dino, and Enslaved Women’s Resistance

Well-researched stories from The New Yorker, Black Perspectives, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
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Drinking Women, Scientific Art, and Torturing Trees

Well-researched stories from The London Review of Books, Atlas Obscura, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
London montage against plain blue sky with River Thames in foreground

Soul City, History in Fiction, and Life on the Thames

Well-researched stories from Sapiens, Scientific American, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
A 19th century illustration of mushrooms

Black Brooklyn, Fascinating Fungi, and a New AI

Well-researched stories from BK Reader, The Guardian, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
A baby humpback whale swims near the surface in blue water

Whale Poop, Dogs without Humans, and Methane Danger

Well-researched stories from The Atlantic, Aeon, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
California Condor in Big Sur

Condor Parthenogenesis, Smartphones, and Whale Talk

Well-researched stories from Gizmodo, Sapiens, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Sunset at the Pyramids, Giza, Cairo, Egypt

A New History, Fabulous Viruses, and Future Creatures

Well-researched stories from The Atlantic, Black Perspectives, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.