Queer Readings of Rebecca
video by trade movies podcast
The Book-Makers
A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives
David Macaulay, America’s “Explainer-in-chief”
Author David Macaulay has spent more than 50 years finding ways to explain things, via his humorous and intricately illustrated books featuring wooly mammoth guides – his attempt to hook…
Why Africa’s history is more than just the slave trade
Has our focus on the impact of the transatlantic slave trade blinded us to the diversity and complexity of Africa's past? That's one of the arguments at the heart of…
The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation
By Cory Doctorow
Antelope Woman
by Louise Erdrich
Art & Courage: A Guide to Sustaining a Creative Path
Since its release in 1993, Art & Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland has become an underground classic helping artists across various disciplines persevere through uncertainty and self-doubt and…
How We Read: A Graphic Guide to Literacy
How do comics support literacy? For many, learning to read can be a struggle. What are the five keys to learning? How does the brain learn how to sound out…
Of Dust and Dreams: A Profile of Karen Russell
Karen Russell’s new novel, The Antidote, was born of a single image: A woman holds a sparkling emerald-green horn to her ear through which she receives someone’s secret and stores…
My Mom Had an Abortion
My Mom Had an Abortion is a unique coming-of-age tale told by a self-described dyslexic-asexual-lesbian-feminist teenager and illustrated by body-positive comic artist Tatiana Gill. We follow our protagonist Beezus B.…