Paul Theroux—travel writer extraordinaire, author of more than fifty books, genius storyteller behind The Mosquito Coast and other movies—is an original. You can’t travel for months alone to dozens of wayward countries unless you... Read More

Savvy travelers get that way through experience. Nobody’s born with artful packing skills or an innate sense of how to lessen the effects of jet lag. That’s a lesson we learned the hard way after many years of attending three or four... Read More

From New England to the American Southwest, Louisiana’s Bayou country to the Pacific Northwest, along with a few pockets in between, the United States boasts an array of regions with distinct, acclaimed food scenes. But for its... Read More

Since his bout with throat cancer three-plus years ago, Editor-in-Chief Matt Sutherland has been hot to discover new books on cancer prevention. Well aware that cancer loves nothing more than to aggressively reappear, Matt reviews the... Read More

As the world’s faithful struggle for proof of the existence of God, the rest of us weep at all the evidence showing that humans have long been playing God (or, Antichrist) with the green Earth—from hunting woolly mammoths and... Read More

Fifty years and seven days ago—amid the riots, political assassinations, and Vietnam War demonstrations that marked 1969 infamously—the Beatles released their masterpiece Abbey Road. In addition to a memorable list of songs, the... Read More

This week, we’re thrilled to spend some time with Renée Watson, A-List poet and author of books for children and young adults, including the recently released Some Places More Than Others. Most notably, she won a Newbery Honor and... Read More

These are the days of miracle and wonder, according to Paul Simon, and when you consider how quickly public opinion has changed on same-sex marriage in the past twenty-two years—68 percent opposition in 1996 to 67 percent support in... Read More