Feng Shui is an ancient Chinese technique for achieving balance and harmony. Contrary to the popular misconception, it is much more than rearranging the furniture, as Wendy Ellen Hanophy points out in Wind, Water and Wing: Feng Shui and the Nature of Home. It is...

In Discovering a Hidden Thread in My Family Tree: A Personal Genealogical Discovery Involving Lucille Ball, Susan Lorraine Kadera takes you on a journey about the significance of family connections, even remote ones. While clicking through genealogical sites online, she discovers that she shares ancestors...

In Education Empowered, Srinivas Jallepalli tells readers that we’ve begun teaching children in a way that doesn’t match how people actually develop. He breaks it down to biology, how the brain works, and how we learn from the world around us. He talks about how...

Does it serve us to be good? Prasanth Kumar Vinakota believes that it does not, and outlines his reasoning in Why Good People Are Actually Dangerous: The Hidden Cost of Moral Certainty. We have been programmed to aspire to be “good”, but this can have...

How Shakespeare Can Save the World by Ion Parreah offers an imaginative exploration of modern society through Shakespeare’s enduring insights, using the Fool’s voice as a guide through contemporary chaos. Parreah introduces the fictional town of Cold Cape, a community undone not by natural disaster...

Nuna Anodm by David Elkins presents a visual and conceptual work built around a single idea: that human meaning can be carried through the body itself. The work is spread out across six spaces and allows readers into an imagined system in which bodily sensation...

Zareen’s Pakistani Kitchen by Zareen Khan and Umair Khan is a beautifully illustrated cookbook, and also a memoir, travelogue, and celebration of a culture of love and nurturing. Full of nostalgic tributes to childhood, Karachi, Lahore, aunts and grandmothers, it promises and delivers a rich...

The mysterious Voynich manuscript and its meaning have been the subject of speculation ever since its discovery in a Jesuit library near Rome in 1912 by an antiquarian book dealer, after whom it is named. It was originally the property of Emperor Rudolf II of...

Andrei Romanov’s book, Masters of the Ocean Sea, is a massive deep dive into how Portugal basically redrew the world map during the Age of Discovery. It avoids being just a dry list of dates, instead focusing on the lives of people like Prince Henry...

Are We Having Fun Still? by Joseph Blackhurst hits on a question that feels relevant in 2026: why does our downtime suddenly feel like a chore? The author starts with a simple conversation in a Target checkout line that spirals into a full-blown autopsy of...