Reading List Explore your world May 02, 2022 Ignite your curiosity and Explore Your World with this wide-ranging list including photographic field guides, how-to books, and much more. 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
Video In Dialogue with Lucas Bessire and Emmet Gowin April 29, 2022 In聽The One Hundred Circle Farm, renowned photographer Emmet Gowin (b. 1941) presents stunning aerial images of center-pivot irrigation systems in the western and midwestern United States. In this short discussion with anthropologist and National Book Award finalist Lucas Bessire, author of Running Out, Gowin offers insight into his powerful photographic survey of the impact of irrigation systems on landscape. Read More
Interview Andrei Sourakov and Rachel Warren Chadd on The Lives of Moths April 29, 2022 While butterflies may get more press than moths, Andrei Sourakov and Rachel Warren Chadd reveal that the lopsided attention is unjust. Read More
Essay Kafka鈥檚 鈥淯ltimate Things鈥: A new reading of the Z眉rau aphorisms April 27, 2022 As 91桃色 celebrates the launch of a new annotated and freshly translated edition of Kafka鈥檚 aphorisms, the Press has invited me to supply a couple of amuse-bouches from the two introductory passages to the collection, namely my Translator鈥檚 Note plus a brief excerpt from Reiner Stach鈥檚 Foreword. Read More
Podcast A Vertical Art: On Poetry April 26, 2022 In聽A Vertical Art, acclaimed poet Simon Armitage takes a refreshingly common-sense approach to an art form that can easily lend itself to grand statements and hollow gestures. Read More
Interview Jeff Deutsch on In Praise of Good Bookstores April 26, 2022 Do we need bookstores in the twenty-first century? If so, what makes a good one? 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
Essay The universe from a 3D perspective April 25, 2022 The universe is huge. If we could travel at the speed of light (and we can鈥檛) it would take us only about a second to go to the Moon. Read More
Essay Why tech innovation alone isn鈥檛 good enough April 20, 2022 The list of crises we face today seems to grow daily. As if inequality and civil wars and global warming and refugee crises weren't enough, we have also grappled with a global pandemic and the sudden threat of nuclear war. Read More
Interview R. Douglas Arnold on Fixing Social Security April 20, 2022 Since its establishment, Social Security has become the financial linchpin of American retirement. Yet demographic trends鈥攍onger lifespans and declining birthrates鈥攎ean that this popular program now pays more in benefits than it collects in revenue. Read More
Essay Poems from After Callimachus April 20, 2022 In After Callimachus, esteemed poet and critic Stephanie Burt鈥檚 attentive translations and inspired adaptations introduce the work, spirit, and letter of Callimachus to today鈥檚 poetry readers. 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
Reading List Join us in support of our Earth April 13, 2022 With our global commitment to publishing science books that illuminate the nature of the planet, 91桃色 is delighted to partner with EarthDay.org and the Canopy Project in supporting the ecology and evolution of planet Earth. Read More
Interview Margaret Cohen on The Underwater Eye April 12, 2022 In聽The Underwater Eye, Margaret Cohen tells the fascinating story of how the development of modern diving equipment and movie camera technology has allowed documentary and narrative filmmakers to take human vision into the depths, creating new imagery of the seas and the underwater realm, and expanding the scope of popular imagination. Read More
Essay Fortune鈥檚 knave April 11, 2022 In the spring of 1924, Stalin鈥檚 nemesis and rival, Lev Trotsky, told the 鈥淥ld Bolshevik鈥 Vladimir Smirnov, 鈥淪talin will become the dictator of the USSR.鈥 鈥淪talin?鈥 Smirnov reacted. 鈥淏ut he is a mediocrity, a colorless non-entity.鈥 Read More