If you’re a book lover, you likely suffer from a common problem: the bedside book stack that threatens to grow so large you might well end up like Anthony Cima, the elderly San Diego gentleman who became buried in his collection of 9,000 books following an earthquake in July of 1986. When rescuers dug him […]
Throughout the holiday season, we’re gathering books that make the perfect gifts for everyone on your list—from your mother and the teen in your life to your foodie friend and the coworker who loves Harry Potter. Need more ideas? Check out all of our amazing gift guides! A Michael Pollan fan is not just any foodie—she’s an intelligent […]
Throughout the holiday season, we’re gathering books that make the perfect gifts for everyone on your list—from your mother and the teen in your life to your foodie friend and the coworker who loves Harry Potter. Need more ideas? Check out all of our amazing gift guides! We all have that friend who just loooves Mary Roach. They […]
Creative types have been mining material from the sciences for years. Hollywood loves the imaginative leaps of science fiction (it’s been churning out Philip K. Dick adaptations for decades), and sometimes it even gets the science right. And these days, science is borrowing back from the arts. Harvard physicist Lisa Randall took the title for her latest […]
There are lots of reasons to pick up a book. Maybe you’re in the mood for an escape from your everyday. Maybe you have a hankering to perfect your grilled cheese recipe. Maybe you are confused and thought the book in question was the hollowed-out one where you store your bathtub gin, because you think […]