Essay Jaws, lost sharks, and the legacy of Peter Benchley July 13, 2021 Jaws, the mere mention of the movie conjures up images of a large triangular fin cutting through the water, beneath it a large fearsome-looking toothy shark swimming with a sense of authority, a purpose. Read More
Video Things Fall Together book trailer June 22, 2021 Things in life tend to fall apart. Cars break down. Buildings fall into disrepair. Personal items deteriorate. Yet today鈥檚 researchers are exploiting newly understood properties of matter to program materials that physically sense, adapt, and fall together instead of apart. Read More
Video Visualizing Dunhuang: A look inside the nine鈥憊olume set June 01, 2021 We invite you to take a look inside this stunning nine-volume presentation of the incredible Buddhist caves at Dunhuang in northwestern China. Read More
Video How the giving habits of the super鈥憆ich affect the rest of us May 16, 2021 It鈥檚 the time of year when our personal finances come to the forefront, but not many Americans are aware that the spending and giving habits of the super-rich are having a direct impact on public provision and policy. Read More
Video Turkish Kaleidoscope book trailer April 21, 2021 Turkish Kaleidoscope聽is a聽powerful graphic novel that traces Turkey鈥檚 descent into political violence in the 1970s through the experiences of four students on opposing sides of the conflict. Read More
Video After Callimachus Readings by Stephanie Burt April 19, 2021 Callimachus may be the best-kept secret in all of ancient poetry. Loved and admired by later Romans and Greeks, his funny, sexy, generous, thoughtful, learned, sometimes elaborate, and always articulate lyric poems, hymns, epigrams, and short stories in verse have gone without a contemporary poetic champion, until now. Read More
Video A cordial invitation to explore the science and history of flavor April 13, 2021 Nature, it has been said, invites us to eat by appetite and rewards by flavor. But what exactly are flavors? Why are some so pleasing while others are not? Read More
Video Breaking the Social Media Prism April 01, 2021 Breaking the Social Media Prism is a revealing look at how user behavior is powering deep social divisions online鈥攁nd how we might yet defeat political tribalism on social media. Read More
Video Abloh-isms: Essential quotations from the renowned fashion designer, DJ, and stylist March 15, 2021 Abloh-isms聽is a collection of essential quotations from American fashion designer,聽DJ, and stylist Virgil Abloh, who has established himself as a major creative figure in the worlds of pop culture and art. Read More
Video The neuroscientific excitement of ordinary moments February 25, 2021 We see the last cookie in the box and think, can I take that? We reach a hand out. In the 2.1 seconds that this impulse travels through our brain, billions of neurons communicate with one another, sending blips of voltage through our sensory and motor regions. Neuroscientists call these blips 鈥渟pikes.鈥� Read More
Video Common reading when dorm rooms become dorm Zooms February 12, 2021 In the last year, the student experience has changed dramatically. Dorm rooms were swapped for dorm Zooms as the 2020 Spring Break turned into a permanent evacuation of many campuses. Read More
Video The multilingual pleasures of English February 08, 2021 At a moment of resurgent nationalism in the English-speaking world, 脡migr茅s invites native Anglophone readers to consider how much we owe the French language and why so many of us remain ambivalent about the migrants in our midst. Read More
Video An Infinite History book trailer January 25, 2021 Watch the book trailer for An Infinite History鈥攁n innovative history of deep social and economic changes in France, told through the story of a single extended family across five generations. Read More
Video The year of conferencing virtually January 21, 2021 For editors and publishers, conferences offer the opportunity to present our lists as a whole to the members of the disciplines in which we are embedded, each title a star in its larger constellation. Read More
Video Human Flow book trailer December 03, 2020 Complete with photographs taken by Ai Weiwei while filming the epic feature documentary聽Human Flow, this book provides a powerful, personal, and moving account of the most urgent humanitarian crisis of our聽time. Read More
