Podcast Listen in: Work Matters August 17, 2022 Low-wage workers make up the largest group of employed parents in the United States, yet scant attention has been given to their experiences as new mothers and fathers.聽Work Matters聽brings the unique stories of these diverse individuals to light. Read More
Podcast Listen in: Sonorous Desert July 19, 2022 For the hermits and communal monks of antiquity, the desert was a place to flee the cacophony of ordinary life in order to hear and contemplate the voice of God. But these monks discovered something surprising in their harsh desert surroundings: far from empty and silent, the desert is richly reverberant.聽 Read More
Podcast Listen in: The Sky Is for Everyone July 07, 2022 The Sky Is for Everyone聽is an internationally diverse collection of autobiographical essays by women who broke down barriers and changed the face of modern astronomy. Start listening to Chapter 1 of the audiobook. Read More
Podcast Listen in: What Makes an Apple? July 05, 2022 In the last years of his life, the writer Amos Oz talked regularly with Shira Hadad, who worked closely with him as the editor of his final novel,聽Judas. These candid, uninhibited dialogues show a side of Oz that few ever saw.聽 Read More
Essay The sounds of summer June 21, 2022 During the month of June we celebrate the audiobook and all that it has to offer as we start on our summer reading lists. Read More
Podcast Listen in: Translating Myself and Others June 01, 2022 Translating Myself and Others聽is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize鈥搘inning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on her emerging identity as a translator as well as a writer in two languages. Read More
Podcast Listen in: The Joy of Science May 05, 2022 The Joy of Science,聽narrated by acclaimed quantum physicist Jim Al-Khalili,聽presents 8 short lessons on how to unlock the clarity, empowerment, and joy of thinking and living a little more scientifically. Read More
Podcast Listen in: In Praise of Good Bookstores April 29, 2022 In this beautifully written book, Jeff Deutsch鈥攖he director of Chicago鈥檚 Seminary Co-op Bookstores, one of the finest bookstores in the world鈥攑ays loving tribute to one of our most important and endangered civic institutions. Read More
Podcast Listen in: Africa鈥檚 Struggle for Its Art April 14, 2022 For decades, African nations have fought for the return of countless works of art stolen during the colonial era and placed in Western museums. In聽Africa鈥檚 Struggle for Its Art, B茅n茅dicte Savoy brings to light this largely unknown but deeply important history. Read More
Podcast Listen in: Work Pray Code March 25, 2022 We all want our jobs to be meaningful and fulfilling. Work Pray Code reveals what can happen when work becomes religion, and when the workplace becomes the institution that shapes our souls. Read More
Podcast Listen in: Rescuing Socrates January 19, 2022 What is the value of a liberal education? Traditionally characterized by a rigorous engagement with the classics of Western thought and literature, this approach to education is all but extinct in American universities, replaced by flexible distribution requirements and ever-narrower academic specialization. Read More
Podcast Listen in: Now Comes Good Sailing December 03, 2021 The world is never done catching up with Henry David Thoreau (1817鈥�1862), the author of聽Walden, 鈥淐ivil Disobedience,鈥� and other classics. A prophet of environmentalism and vegetarianism, an abolitionist, and a critic of materialism and technology, Thoreau even seems to have anticipated a world of social distancing in his famous experiment at Walden Pond. Read More
Podcast Listen in: American Afterlives November 22, 2021 Death in the United States is undergoing a quiet revolution. You can have your body frozen, dissected, composted, dissolved, or tanned. Read More
Podcast Listen in: Running Out November 15, 2021 The Ogallala aquifer has nourished life on the American Great Plains for millennia. But less than a century of unsustainable irrigation farming has taxed much of the aquifer beyond repair. Read More
Podcast Listen in: Career and Family November 05, 2021 A century ago, it was a given that a woman with a college degree had to choose between having a career and a family. Today, there are more female college graduates than ever before, and more women want to have a career and family, yet challenges persist at work and at home. Read More
