That’s a complex question, and one that’s a little easier to answer thanks to this in-depth and engaging look at this history, effects, and future of recycling in the United States. The short answer is no; the long answer is that it could be better if more people followed the guidelines. While “91 percent of …
Twelve-year-old Tuva has always felt different; she’s never had any friends. She hides mysterious scars on her neck behind her long, white-blond hair. But when her classmate Axel goes missing in an ominous fog, and Tuva finds his gym partner, Rasmus, being led through the forest by what turn out to be actual fairies, she’s …
The author was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in Section-8 housing in Brooklyn; he moved from poverty to the ivory towers of academia to become a professor of English at the University of Toledo. While his account is a deeply personal story of survival, brilliance, and grit, he also connects his autobiography to …
Whenever Californian James Mun sleeps, he enters a place called the Flowering. There, he belongs to Crew Blue, along with E, Honey, and Lux, whose job is to kill monstrous “moulded” citizens of the realm. Their latest mission involves the Red Calf, a legendary beast that was defeated and imprisoned in a purple orb, but …
Sixteen-year-old artist Rick Seaton works on his metalsmithing at his New Jersey home. Using a lamp he bought at an auction (“It’s antique, a piece of history, and an investment!”), Rick inadvertently launches a piece of metal into the sky. He relays this discovery to his summer-camp friend Martin Crane in Idaho while Martin’s former …
After her four-year marriage ended, the author found herself nearing the end of her 30s and confronting an uncertain future. Living in New York City and working as a ghostwriter—a job she had come to despise—she made the practical but emotionally fraught decision to freeze her eggs (“I can’t stop thinking that I’m behind schedule”). …
Bob Dylan has nothing on Leonard Cohen (1934-2016) when it comes to cryptic musical personas. He was a successful singer-songwriter but came to it late, almost casually, after establishing himself as a poet and novelist in his native Canada. He wrote songs steeped in religious imagery—“Hallelujah” most famously—but kept his own faith vague. Though he …
The Glory Peak Ski Resort is founded in 1966 by Bill Macklemore, a World War II veteran–turned–ski instructor who developed a site near Fortooth into a premier skiing destination (it is said that “Fortooth was one of those towns where reality was far more potent than myth”). His devotion to his business is so all-encompassing …
What does it mean for the world to end? Spanish author Levi’s novel takes up that question both literally and figuratively. Largely structured as 19-year-old narrator Little Lea’s tale of her life, which she’s recounting to a man in search of his lost dog, this novel reckons with the appeal and dangers of home. “I …
