The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

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This Is How You Lose the Time War

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The Lathe Of Heaven

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Do You Dream of Terra-Two?

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The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin

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The Wall of Storms

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Anansi Boys

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Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions

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Flowers for Algernon

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The Only Living Girl on Earth

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To Be Taught, If Fortunate

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The Empress of Salt and Fortune

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The Hidden Girl and Other Stories

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The Wind's Twelve Quarters: Stories

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The Grace of Kings

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Ring Shout

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We: A Novel

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Piranesi

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Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

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The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin

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A Wizard of Earthsea

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Stardust

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Black Sun

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How High We Go in the Dark: A Novel

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Contact

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Vita Nostra: A Novel

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Bots of the Lost Ark by Suzanne Palmer (audio): This episode features "Bots of the Lost Ark" written by Suzanne Palmer. Published in the June 2021 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. - The text version of this story can be found at: http://clarkesworldmagazine.

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Ep 186: Finding the book that feels like it was written just for you

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Ted Chiang : Exhalation: “Ted Chiang has no contemporary peers when it comes to the short story form. His name deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as Carver, Poe, Borges, and Kafka. Every story is a universe. Every story is a diamond.

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Humankind: a hopeful history [Audio]

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Anne Applebaum: Fighting Against the Great Forgetting: The Soviet famine of the early 1930s killed around 5 million people; almost 4 million of them were Ukrainians. As Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum demonstrates in her latest book, Red Famine, it wasn't fate o

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"The Angel of Khan El-Khalili" by P. Djèlí Clark

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Johann Hari: Stolen Focus – Why You Can’t Pay Attention: This week on the Mad in America podcast we hear from Johann Hari. Johann is an  internationally bestselling author whose books have appeared in 38 languages, and he was twice named National Newspaper Journalist of the Year by Amnesty...

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Ocean Vuong | On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

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Rutger Bregman’s optimistic history of the world: Rutger Bregman ranges through the past to argue that humanity is inherently good. Historyextra.com/podcast

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Russia's Threat to Invade Ukraine: Amid Moscow’s increasing tensions between Ukraine & Russia & with the threat of war looming Dan is joined by A. D. Miller to discuss the long & complex relationship between the two countries & how to make sense of the current crisis.

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Summer Reading: Robert and Julie's Picks: Summer Reading: Robert and Julie's Picks: Once again, your Robert and Julie are here to share some summer reading recommendations with their curious listeners. Explore their delightful buffet of science, sci-fi, children's books, literary fiction and grap

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Yuval Noah Harari - How Humans Have Become Gods and What it Means for Our Future

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Ukraine’s pipeline problem: The US is negotiating to stop Russia from invading Ukraine, but a Germany-backed natural gas project complicates things.

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It’s not about Ukraine. It’s about Putin.: It’s not about Russia, either.

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Ursula K. Le Guin : Steering The Craft: Ursula K. Le Guin believes we cannot restructure society without restructuring the English language, and thus her book on the craft of writing inevitably engages class, gender, race, capitalism, and morality,

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The Alignment Problem: The Implications of AI On Our Lives and Our Work: Brian Christian is the author of The Most Human Human, which was named a Wall Street Journal bestseller, a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and a New Yorker favorite book of the year. He is the author, with Tom Griffiths, of Algorithms to Live By, a...

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The Gift of Silence: Quieting the Mind: The Gift of Silence: Quieting the Mind - Through all spiritual traditions, there is a valuing of silence and stillness. When the mind has quieted, it becomes possible to see into the truth of what we are. Yet quieting can turn into a battle with the...

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Weapons of Math Destruction: Cathy O'Neil shares about her book, Weapons of Math Destruction, on episode 170 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Quotes from the episode This has very little to do with technical knowledge and everything to do with power.

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Ed Yong on the wondrous world of animal senses: In the first of our new series, the award-winning science journalist joins us to discuss his book An Immense World.

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Writing Fiction, with Elizabeth Buchan: With Elizabeth Buchan, author of the novel Everything She Thought She Wanted (and 9 others)

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1 - Pilot: Pilot Episode. A new dog park opens in Night Vale. Carlos, a scientist, visits and discovers some interesting things. Seismic things. Plus, a helpful guide to surveillance helicopter-spotting. Weather: "These and More Than These" by Joseph Fink Music:...

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N.K. Jemisin : The City We Became: “The City We Became is a wonderfully inventive love letter to New York City that spans the multiverse. A big middle finger to Lovecraft with a lot of heart, creativity, smarts and humor. A timely and audacious allegorical tale for our times.

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"Troll Bridge" by Terry Pratchett: An aging barbarian sets out to battle a bridge troll, mano a mano, and thus prove his mettle. “Troll Bridge” by Terry Pratchett, was first published in 1992. © Dunmanifestin Limited.

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Russia's Vladamir Putin: In this episode, we dive into the life of Vladimir Putin and try to understand how he became Russia's new "tsar."

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Episode 159: Aristotle's "Poetics", Part 1: On The Literary Life podcast this week, our hosts continue their series of discussions on Aristotle’s . Angelina, Cindy, and Thomas share some pertinent commonplace quotations to open the episode, then dive into this week’s text, beginning with...

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Best Of: How Octopuses Upend What We Know About Ourselves: I’ve been on an octopus kick for a little while now. In that, I don’t seem to be alone. Octopuses (it’s incorrect to say “octopi,” to my despair) are having a moment: There are award-winning books, documentaries and even science fiction about them. I suspect it’s the same hunger that leaves many of us yearning to know aliens: How do radically different minds work? What is it like to be a truly different being living in a similar world? The flying objects above remain unidentified. But the incomprehensible objects below do not. We are starting to be smart enough to ask the question: How smart are octopuses? And what are their lives like? Sy Montgomery is a naturalist and the author of dozens of books on animals. In 2015 she published the dazzling book “The Soul of an Octopus,” which became a finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction. It’s an investigation not only into the lives and minds of octopuses but also into the

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How To Overcome Selfishness

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How Octopuses Upend What We Know About Ourselves: I’ve spent the past few months on an octopus kick. In that, I don’t seem to be alone. Octopuses (it’s incorrect to say “octopi,” to my despair) are having a moment: There are award-winning books, documentaries and even science fiction about them. I suspect it’s the same hunger that leaves many of us yearning to know aliens: How do radically different minds work? What is it like to be a truly different being living in a similar world? The flying objects above remain unidentified. But the incomprehensible objects below do not. We are starting to be smart enough to ask the question: How smart are octopuses? And what are their lives like? Sy Montgomery is a naturalist and the author of dozens of books on animals. In 2015 she published the dazzling book “The Soul of an Octopus,” which became a finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction. It’s an investigation not only into the lives and minds of octopuses but also into the relationsh

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Episode 80: Why Read Old Books: Today on The Literary Life Podcast, Angelina Stanford, Cindy Rollins and Thomas Banks discuss the importance of reading old books. They begin the conversation by addressing head on the idea that old books are irrelevant. They touch on the fact that...

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5.1 We Have This-ness, Y’all!: A Discussion with Ocean Vuong and Amy E. Elkins