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Introducing the Nautilus Winter Reading List

Alice Sun is a science journalist based in Brooklyn, N.Y. Her work frequently covers biology, the environment, social science, mental health, and more. More of her work can be found on <a href="https://www.alicesun.ca/">her website</a> and <a>X</a> (formerly known as Twitter).

Alice Sun

Psychology

Does Life’s Happiness Have a Shape?

Communication

The Most Beautiful Science of the Year

John Steele is the publisher and editorial director of Nautilus.

John Steele

Environment

How to Read a Tsunami

Hasanthika Sirisena is a cartoonist and essayist living in Philadelphia.

Hasanthika Sirisena

Science from the Tsunami

<a href="https://katherineellison.com">Katherine Ellison</a> is a journalist and author and co-author of 12 nonfiction books, including the ADHD family memoir, Buzz: A Year of Paying Attention.

Katherine Ellison

Making Friends with Your Past and Future Selves

The Sean Carrolls Explain the Universe

Jake Currie is a writer based in Brooklyn, NY.

Jake Currie

Finding Beauty in the Struggle Between Light and Darkness

Holly Haworth’s work appears in Orion, The New York Times Magazine, Oxford American, Lapham’s Quarterly, Sierra, and at the On Being radio program blog. Her essays have been included in The Best American Science and Nature Writing and listed as notable in The Best American Travel Writing. Her forthcoming book This Resounding World: A Field Guide to Listening received the Robert B. Silvers Foundation grant for Works in Progress. You can subscribe to her newsletter SPELLS at <a href="https://hollyhaworth.substack.com/">hollyhaworth.substack.com</a>.

Holly Haworth

Evolution

We Are Light-Eaters

Jonathan Weiner teaches science writing at Columbia Journalism School. His book The Beak of the Finch won a Pulitzer prize in 1995.

Jonathan Weiner

Back to the Galapagos

Kristen French is an associate editor at Nautilus. She has worked in science journalism since 2013, reporting and writing features and news for publications such as Wired, Backchannel, The Verge, and New York Magazine. She has a masters degree in science journalism from Columbia University.

Kristen French

This Ocean Wave Has Rights  

Helen De Cruz is a philosopher who works and teaches at Saint Louis University, where she holds the Danforth Chair in the Humanities. She is the author of many books and papers, most recently <a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691232126/wonderstruck?srsltid=AfmBOoryC5WU3DKxpfxyetzLSgyvT2Hq-jEaFIBpAM6aC7HKPSzw11Sf">Wonderstruck: How Wonder and Awe Shape the Way We Think</a> with Princeton University Press (2024).

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