literature

An astrobiologist finds the heart of his work in a new novel by Richard Powers.

This renegade professor says literature is a machine that accelerates the human brain.

The power of narrative flows only from the human brain.

It’s a myth that legendary works in science aren’t read.

The astonishing relevance of the British writer’s story, “The Machine Stops.”

The former vice president reads the transcendentalist poet—and reminds us of one.

Rafael Campo on finding the humanity in medicine and science.

Literature’s evolution has reflected and spurred the growing complexity of society.

A poet blends the personal with the cosmic.

The evolutionary biologist reads Robert Frost.

Why Stanislaw Lem’s futurism deserves attention.