Video PUP Speaks: Rachel Gable on The Hidden Curriculum October 11, 2021 Are universities designed to trip up those individuals they should most be trying to include? Rachel Gable, PUP Speaks speaker and author of聽The Hidden Curriculum: First Generation Students at Legacy Universities, presents the results of her investigation into the difficulties first generation students must overcome to succeed. Read More
Podcast What Makes Us Smart: The Computational Logic of Human Cognition October 08, 2021 At the heart of human intelligence rests a fundamental puzzle: How are we incredibly smart and stupid at the same time? No existing machine can match the power and flexibility of human perception, language, and reasoning. Read More
Video Hosts and Guests: Readings by poet Nate Klug October 07, 2021 Nate Klug has been hailed by the聽Threepenny Review聽as a poet who is 鈥渁n original in Eliot鈥檚 sense of the word.鈥� In聽Hosts and Guests, his exciting second collection, Klug revels in slippery roles and shifting environments. Read More
Interview Kyle Harper on Plagues upon the Earth October 06, 2021 Plagues upon the Earth聽is a monumental history of humans and their germs. Weaving together a grand narrative of global history with insights from cutting-edge genetics, Kyle Harper explains why humanity鈥檚 uniquely dangerous disease pool is rooted deep in our evolutionary past, and why its growth is accelerated by technological progress. Read More
Video Not Meant as Poems October 05, 2021 Rain in Plural聽is the much-anticipated fourth collection of poetry by Fiona Sze-Lorrain, who has been praised by聽The Rumpus聽as 鈥渁 master of musicality and enlightening allusions.鈥� Read More
Podcast Listen in: Ice Rivers October 05, 2021 The ice sheets and glaciers that cover one-tenth of Earth鈥檚 land surface are in grave peril. High in the Alps, Andes, and Himalaya, once-indomitable glaciers are retreating, even dying. Read More
Interview Book Club Pick: Very Important People October 04, 2021 Million-dollar birthday parties, megayachts on the French Riviera, and $40,000 bottles of champagne. In today鈥檚 New Gilded Age, the world鈥檚 moneyed classes have taken conspicuous consumption to new extremes. Read More
Essay A look inside City of Dreams October 03, 2021 On April 10, 1962, amid ceremony and celebration, Dodger Stadium, major league baseball鈥檚 modern showpiece, opened in Los Angeles, California. Read More
Interview Shelley Frisch on the work (and play) of translation September 30, 2021 Award-winning translator Shelley Frisch shares her thoughts about the principles that guide her work, rituals that she turns to as she settles in with a work, and what she enjoys most about translating texts. Read More
Essay The fall of Kabul and the new decolonization September 28, 2021 The collapse of the Western-backed regime in Afghanistan in August 2021, and the subsequent images of the chaotic retreat of the American-led forces from Kabul Airport鈥攇randiosely named after the former President of a now-defunct regime, Hamid Karzai鈥攆its easily into the photo album of contemporary history. Read More
Essay All stories are stories about food September 27, 2021 A confession: for many years I lived a double life鈥攁s a writer, anyway. I started as a scholar of the Renaissance and antiquity who loved to cook, to eat, and to taste wine; then, by various happy accidents, I began to receive requests that I actually write about cooking, eating, and tasting wine. Read More
Podcast Listen in: Twelve Caesars September 24, 2021 What does the face of power聽look聽like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? Read More
Podcast Pedias: Beautiful, short books about big, important subjects September 22, 2021 In this podcast, Marshall Poe talks to Robert Kirk, the publisher of the Pedia book series.聽Encyclopedic in nature and miniature in form, these books explore the wonders of the natural world, from A to Z. Read More
Podcast Listen in: The Genetic Lottery September 22, 2021 In The Genetic Lottery, Kathryn Paige Harden introduces readers to the latest genetic science, dismantling dangerous ideas about racial superiority and challenging us to grapple with what equality really means in a world where people are born different. Read More
Interview Kathryn Paige Harden on The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality September 20, 2021 In recent years, scientists like Kathryn Paige Harden have shown that聽DNA聽makes us different, in our personalities and in our health鈥攁nd in ways that matter for educational and economic success in our current society. Read More
