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[ad_1] Khalil Gibran wrote in his poem On Marriage that love in which the couple was tied too tightly would strangle love. But loose bonds come with their own slippages. A hundred years after Gibran, couples still search for clues as to why some marriages make it to their Diamond (60th) anniversaries while others are over before … Read more

[ad_1] As an ex-smuggler and two-time reluctant revolutionary, Alyssa is used to staring into the razor-sharp jaws of death. But now she’s embarking on the most terrifying adventure of her life—journeying into the darkness to become a new type of being, one who can help humanity to survive. And deep at the heart of the … Read more

[ad_1] What makes for a great book about music? While the genre abounds with tell-all memoirs and other chronicles of excess, the range of subjects covered by music books is as wide-ranging as, well, music itself. Incisive writers and novelists around the world have used music as a way to explore everything, from politics to … Read more

[ad_1] Knowledge is key and reading is one of the best ways to learn. Books, fiction or nonfiction, can expand the mind and open our eyes to countless possibilities. Maybe not every book has a change-the-world kind of message—reading purely for pleasure is still reading! But there are definitely titles out there than can make … Read more

[ad_1] November is here, along with falling leaves, whipping winds, and the possibility of other, more dramatic weather patterns—all of which are related to climate change, the urgency of which you can read about in Greta Thunberg’s newly collected speeches, featured as one of our favorites of the month. But wait, there’s more! We’ve got … Read more

[ad_1] The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead was Read It Forward’s book club pick of October and it really sparked a lot of discussion. The brave, eye-opening novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim … Read more

[ad_1] My approach to reading is a lot like my appetite for sex. Sometimes I want it quick, hot, and dirty, which is when I’ll read a shorter novel that I can finish in an afternoon. Then there are the other times when I want the lovemaking that goes on all night and is in … Read more

[ad_1] Security through physicality. Security through redundancy. Security through obscurity. How do immortal artificial intelligences defend themselves? With an air gap. With a security force that has no connection to anything that can harm them. With a young woman, trained to fight and to die who, along with her cohort must keep them safe. But … Read more

[ad_1] The trouble with language is language. It’s so inherent to who we are that we submit early on to its autocracy. In order to comprehend the murmuring of our parents, the customs of our tribes, cultural currencies of our communities, not to mention the laws of our societies, we commit to memory the structure … Read more

[ad_1] An act of compassion puts a trapeze master in India on a collision course with a terrifying supernatural power.     I am not a fighter. I am a trapeze master. At the Majestic Oriental Circus, which had been my home for two years, I had climbed the ropes deft and fast, till I … Read more