The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds by Jennifer Ackerman - 2023 Penguin Random House. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a brilliant scientific investigation into owls—the most elusive of birds—and why they exert such a hold on human imagination

An invitation to readers from every walk of life to rediscover the impractical splendors of a life of learning

A man who’s been called “the chief shaman of the paranoid school of American fiction” can be expected to act a little nervous.

Jerusalem is a novel by British author Alan Moore, wholly set in and around the author's home town of Northampton, England. Combining elements of historical and supernatural fiction and drawing on a range of writing styles, the author describes it as a work of "genetic mythology"

Snow Crash is a science fiction novel by American writer Neal Stephenson, published in 1992.

is an essay by American historian Richard J. Hofstadter, first published in Harper's Magazine in November 1964 soon after Senator Barry Goldwater won the Republican presidential nomination over the more moderate Nelson A. Rockefeller.

The Library of America (LOA) is a nonprofit publisher of classic American literature.

Why anyone who cares about truth or justice needs to resist the strange new rules of public discourse.

The debate over “cancel culture” is about something real. But it’s not about free speech.

We laughed at the Republican busybody who couldn't joke, declared war on dirty paintings, and peered through your bedroom window. Now that person has switched sides, and nobody's laughing

What is an X? An empty set, a place-holder, a nothing that fills a void until an actual something comes along. “They have few heroes, no anthems, no style to call their own,” wrote Time magazine in a 1990 cover story called “20-something” that marked our debut, as a class, on the national stage.

is an American fiction author. Though his second novel, Only Revolutions (2006), was nominated for the National Book Award,[3] Danielewski is most widely known for his debut novel House of Leaves (2000), which garnered a considerable cult following and won the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award.[4][5] He has published one novella, The Fifty Year Sword, which until rereleased by Pantheon in the United States in 2012

The Remains of the Day is a 1989 novel by Nobel Prize-winning British writer Kazuo Ishiguro.