Suggested Readings: Ancient Sharks, Fast Runners, and Dirty Water
Our editors pick stories from around the web that bridge the gap between news and scholarship. This week: microbiomes, Jamaican runners, Greenland sharks.
Colson Whitehead
Colton Whitehead's new novel The Underground Railroad, and how he researches his books.
Suggested Readings: Flossing, Olympic Cities, and the Economics of Slavery
Extra Credit: Our pick of stories from around the web that bridge the gap between news and scholarship. ...
Russia, China, and Patty Hearst
News books from Han Han, Jeffrey Tobin, Lara Vapnyar, and more with related links to JSTOR.
Suggested Readings: Olympic Bribery, Poetic Profanity, Honey-Seeking Birds
Extra Credit: Our pick of stories from around the web that bridge the gap between news and scholarship. ...
The Olympics, Dave Eggers, and Your Idiot Brain
Our Friday Reads are these five new books out this week, and links to related content you won’t find anywhere else.
Suggested Readings: Racism and Portland, Theory and Food, Bikes and Mathematics
Extra Credit: Our pick of stories from around the web that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Hillary Clinton: Women’s Rights Are Human Rights
Welcome to a new series that brings you original content from individuals in the news.
New International Books
Five new books out this week, and links to related content you won’t find anywhere else.
Susan B. Anthony on Her Revolutionary Foremothers
Susan B. Anthony discusses how women's rights have evolved in a 1902 North American Review piece, "Woman's Half-Century of Evolution."
Suggested Readings: Ducklings, Turkey, and Rembrandt’s Mirrors
Extra Credit: Our pick of stories from around the web that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Joy Williams, Tennessee Williams, and More
Five new books out this week, and links to related content you won’t find anywhere else. Prose master ...
Suggested Readings: Police Violence, Disclosure Trouble, and Watching Turtles from Space
Extra Credit: Our pick of stories from around the web that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Jamaica, Ithaca, and Seinfeldia
Our Friday Reads are these five new books out this week, and links to related content you won’t find anywhere else.
Suggested Readings: Dating Shows, Card Games, and Massacres
Extra Credit: Our pick of stories from around the web that bridge the gap between news and scholarship. ...
Post Offices, Prep Schools, and Poetry
Our Friday Reads are these five new books out this week, and links to related content you won’t find anywhere else.
Suggested Readings: Brexit, Magic, and Aging Monkeys
Extra Credit: Our pick of stories from around the web that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Quantifying Rape
Rape has costs beyond the physical and emotional: Emergency room visits, therapy, rehab, wasted tuition, lost wages, and lifestyle changes expensive.
Video Games, Italian Revolutionaries, and Anne Tyler
Our Friday Reads are these new books out this week, and related content you won't find anywhere else.
Suggested Readings: Happiness and Parenting, Racism and Medicine, Fox News and the GOP
Extra Credit: Our pick of stories from around the web that bridge the gap between news and scholarship. ...
Tig Notaro, Annie Proulx, and More
Our Friday Reads rounds up five new books out this week, and links to related content you won't find anywhere else.
Suggested Readings: Bees, Brains, and Bad Science
Extra Credit: Our pick of stories from around the web that bridge the gap between news and scholarship. ...
Friday Reads in the Digital Library
Here is your Friday Five: Five new books out this week, and links to related content you won't find anywhere else. Ghanaian-American writer Yaa Gyasi’s firs