Essay Succubus (2024): Female monstrosity in the age of AI April 20, 2026 Recently, I watched Succubus (2024); I decided to watch it because, historically, the succubus tradition has some tangency with the tradition of female monstrosity that animates my forthcoming book, Monstrous Bitch, which is the tradition of the Lamia. Read More
Podcast Listen in: Spinoza, Atheist April 20, 2026 From Pulitzer Prize finalist Steven Nadler, this fascinating historical and philosophical narrative unravels the mystery of whether Spinoza was an atheist. Read More
Podcast Overinvested April 17, 2026 Parents are exhausted. When did raising children become such all-consuming, never-ending, incredibly expensive, and emotionally absorbing effort? In this eye-opening book, Nina Bandelj explains how we got to this point—how we turned children into financial and emotional investments and child-rearing into laborious work. Read More
Interview Annie McClanahan on Beneath the Wage April 17, 2026 Annie McClanahan's Beneath the Wage retheorizes capitalism from the perspective of the service economy, challenging conventional assumptions about how work is waged, regulated, managed, and automated. Read More
Essay Drag Me to Hell (2009) April 14, 2026 Not all of the “elevated” horror coming out right now is doing right by us, nor even by cultural history. Drag Me to Hell (2009) is a film animated by exactly the wrong amount of research. Read More
Podcast On Pedantry April 14, 2026 On Pedantry sheds critical light on why anti-intellectual views have gained renewed prominence today and serves as essential reading in an age of rising populism across the globe. Read More
Podcast How to Change a Memory April 09, 2026 How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist's Quest to Alter the Past is a disarmingly personal account of the new science of memory manipulation by one of today’s leading pioneers in the field by Steve Ramirez. Read More
Essay Publishing for planners: A new era for Island Press April 08, 2026 As the legendary legacy publisher transitions into a new life phase, publisher Heather Boyer and senior editor Stacy Eisenstark reflect on the past and the future of creating books for planners. Read More
Interview Andrew H. Knoll on Earth and Life April 01, 2026 How did the world as we know it—from the soil beneath our feet to the air we breathe and the life that surrounds us—come to be? Geologists have proposed one set of answers while biologists have proposed another. Read More
Podcast Free Agents April 01, 2026 Traversing billions of years of evolution, Kevin J. Mitchell tells the remarkable story of how living beings capable of choice arose from lifeless matter. Read More
Essay Ideas in action: Island Press and PUP April 01, 2026 Island Press began with a simple idea:?knowledge is power—the power to imagine a better future and find ways to get us there. Together Island Press and 快色直播 are determined to line the path to our resilient future with the books that contain the nutrients we need: ideas and expertise. Read More
Interview Mark Peterson on The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution March 25, 2026 Mark Peterson discusses The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution: A Thousand-Year History, his provocative new history of America’s constitution and urgent call to action for a nation confronted by challenges its founders could never have imagined. Read More
Essay The human (or bat, or abalone) experience March 24, 2026 In 1974, philosopher Thomas Nagel published a now-famous paper titled “What is it Like to be a Bat?”. By imagining how another species experiences the world, Nagel hoped to explore the the notion of consciousness itself. Read More
Interview Leslie Umberger on Grandma Moses March 24, 2026 Leslie Umberger is coauthor (along with Randall R. Griffey) of Grandma Moses: A Good Day's Work, a major reexamination of the life, art, and legacy of a self-taught American master. Read More
Podcast Try to Love the Questions March 24, 2026 In Try to Love the Questions: From Debate to Dialogue in Classrooms and Life, Lara Schwartz introduces the fundamental principles of free expression, academic freedom, and academic dialogue, showing how open expression is the engine of social progress, scholarship, and inclusion Read More
