Heather Diehl/Getty Images Waymo robotaxis are either extremely dangerous or a “public health breakthrough,” depending on who you ask. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has come out in favor of Waymo and announced that it Driverless cars crash less than people. However, the IIHS also freely
Katie’s parents never told her “no” when she asked for the book, which was the beginning of most of her problems. She has an MLIS from the University of Illinois and works full-time as a circulation and reference manager at the University of Illinois. She has a deep love of all things disturbing, twisted, and
my earliest reading memoryThe summer my middle sister was born, my mother and I would go to the shops in Cherryvalley in east Belfast to send her messages, and she would buy me the latest issue of Storyteller, which had illustrated stories from around the world. It came with cassette tapes of actors reading stories
If there’s one Black romance author whose name is on many people’s lips these days, it’s Kennedy Ryan. While she has been self-publishing since the mid-2010s, she burst onto the romance scene full-time when she became the first Black author to win a RITA Award by a vote of Romance Writers of America members (in
FFrom celebrity book clubs to glamorous literary party revivals, there’s a lot more to what it means to be a book lover. Dior has launched new editions of its book tote, decorated with the covers of classics such as ulysses And Dracula. Earlier this year, Coach cooperated To create miniature literary backpack charms with penguins
Many people dream of long summer reads, but to actually dig into the books, you have to steal any moment you can.
The National Year of Reading should be extended into a National Decade of Reading, an Education Committee inquiry into reading for pleasure has concluded. The committee argues that the government should also commit to a national reading guarantee that would ensure that all children have regular opportunities to enjoy reading. The Reading for Pleasure Inquiry
TeaThat Odyssey was once completely Greek to me. I struggled to keep up with the cast of characters, the multitude of heroes and villains, the bevy of sons and daughters. I found the Homeric formula – the stock phrase repeated over and over again from oral tradition – confusing and tiresome. In my 1946 prose
Despite the prevalence of happy romantic heroes, I’m most interested in the ambiguous love story. My favorite titles show that the land of love can be treacherous terrain – emigration, murder, parental illness, getting pregnant by a stranger. Sometimes, the lovers even die – shot in bed, buried in a cave, or made to disappear
