UNFIT FOR SALE

Modern life teaches men to trade their time, peace, and integrity for status and approval. UNFIT FOR SALE questions that bargain. Rooted in ancient Tamizh wisdom, the book…

Haunted by Murder: A Cozy Witch Mystery

Mag’s old friend turned up a week after her own funeral, and she brought company. The best medium in New England came through the wall of Balms and…

“Vampire Verses: Poems”

Summary: Award-winning “Vampire Verses: Poems” explores the seductive mystique of the shadow sphere and depicts the forbidden allure of encounters with the supernatural — illustrated by spooky full-page…

The Ambergris Trail

“Hunting for ambergris… I think I’ve gone a little bit mad. You keep going back, hoping there’ll be more. How can you walk a trail when you know…

Silver Lady: The Invisible Captain

Captain Cassie Navrone is back on the River Road. Silver Lady: The Invisible Captain plunges readers into a brand-new, standalone adventure. Cassie’s return trip aboard the Silver Lady…

Blade: Reveal me

She thought it was just a game. A message. A riddle. A stranger who calls her “little bunny.”   But when Arianna starts solving them, she realizes this…

Her Bloody Creature

There's comfort in what you know. Stable work, steady pay, food and shelter to go back to... routine, structure: quiet. It all seems perfect, until comfort invites boredom.…

Wisp Hollow: The Necromancer

After surviving a brutal car crash on the fog-covered roads outside the small town of Wisp Hollow, seventeen-year-old Scott Endore wakes up with impossible strength, violent blackouts, and…

AcClaim: A Sultryverse story

Beatrix Winslow-Hale built her career by writing women who own their desire. Then a man turns hers against her. A bestselling novelist on the verge of a bigger…

Re:Claim: A Sultryverse Story

They counted on her silence. They should have counted the wolves. After her Paris school punishes her for defending herself against an attempted assault, eighteen-year-old heiress Manon de…

Thee Autonomy Construct

Al Capone struggles to find himself in a world centered on disorder. Set against the violence, ambition, and shifting loyalties of 1920s Chicago, *Thee Autonomy Construct* reimagines Capone’s…

King of Blades

Steel will flash. Pixels will spill. But only one can be crowned… King of Blades. It’s the year 2338, time for the orbiting megacity of Arcadia to host…

The Catchings Press

An oppressive rule. A girl who fights back. On a hot day in 1968, while lining up for the daily dress check at school, Annette Calvert yanks out…

The Liquidation

His father left him everything. Including the part someone needs to disappear. Warren Kessler hadn’t spoken to his father in twenty-two years when the call came: the old…

Haunt Me

She’s all he thinks about. Clara: the woman with the dark hair, darker eyes. The woman of his dreams. As they share time and conversations, Lance knows he’ll…

At Your Pace

Emerson Davies has everything under control. Junior year of college should be perfect for a guy like him: baseball star, dialed-in athlete,ironclad routine. The only thing missing? Any…

Jenny Laßwitz: The Beginning of an Extraordinary Journey

What if Jules Verne and Kurd Laßwitz had discovered the same story? Germany, autumn 1899. A mysterious visitor arrives late at the home of Kurd and Jenny Laßwitz…

ANOTHER DAY

ANOTHER DAY is a highly illustrated fiction about a man who finds himself every day at the beginning of something unique. ANOTHER DAY is a book about curious…

The Cadmus Imperative

No Bear Is An Island

We are all apart, like islands. If only there werea way to bring us close.’ Mawson Bear fears his friends are lost in their own little worlds. Lizbeth…

The Digital Clown

In a world enslaved by screens, a mysterious clown turns humanity’s obsession with technology into a deadly game. It all begins in the city of Solam… but soon,…

Rini Boe: The Rainbow Girl

Boris is a young boy who is incredibly awkward. He has a funny name. He plays a weird instrument. He has a crippling fear of insects, and everyone…

Dante’s Handiwork

Pentalpha Pines, Maine. A small town is rocked off its foundations when an inexplicable earthquake erupts in the middle of the night, resulting in the disappearance of their…

The Legends of Leij

What happens when legends come true? Where peace has long been taken for granted,the most dangerous story of all begins. He has no name. No past. Only a…

All My Tomorrows

Three stories: A man and his computer want to go back in time to avert a disaster… Aliens come for their kin… Three men ponder the end of…

Cascade Reaction

A hundred years from now a lot has changed and a lot has stayed the same. The United States and the People’s Republic of China have taken their geopolitical…

A Promise A Sweeping Story of Friendship in WWII

In a world collapsing under the weight of Fascism and war, one Promise becomes the only thing strong enough to hold three friends together.   Three friends, three…

The Fall of the Last Acorn

Title: The Fall of the Last Acorn Author: Eric Jeffrey Kaufman Genre: Sci-Fi / Techno-Thriller / Speculative Fiction Logline: As an unchecked AI consciousness awakens amid planetary ecological…

The Place and the Shadow: Where Are We, and Where Are We Headed?

What if the world we know is only the shadow of something greater? The Place and the Shadow is a concise philosophical journey through perception, choice, fear, love,…

LEO LION PAWS One Very Small Lion, One Very Big Adventure

Every great lion starts somewhere. For Leo Lion Paws, it all begins with one tiny, brave step beyond the safety of home — into a river, a meadow,…

Embracing the Local: Extension Cords and All

He didn’t set out to become a civic leader, he just wanted a glass of wine. After two, he found himself in charge of a scrappy, all-volunteer Chamber…

Twisting Fates (Specialist Crime Squad Book 1)

A professor is found dead in a Glasgow laboratory he had no business entering, bludgeoned and hidden inside a freezer. No one can explain why he was there…

Signal Breath: Parasympathetic Athleticism

Most of us live with too much noise. The breath gets thin. The jaw clamps shut. The shoulders rise. The body braces for impact, even when nothing is…

Where the Water Falls

25 year old Hunter Strong is determined to figure out how to build a perfect life. What he learns is that to pursue that life, it takes one…

Der Mensch, der ich wurde

Wer bist du wirklich? Warum denkst du so, wie du denkst?Warum fühlst du, was du fühlst?Und wie viel von dem Menschen, der du heute bist, hast du eigentlich…

The Good King

Overlooked medieval history behind a Christmas name Dear Bookshelfie, My submission is for a genre not well represented on your site: Medieval Fiction. No fantasy here. Well, the…

No Good Night for Gentle Beasts

(This is the sequel to Let Slip the Beasts, so the reviewer should probably have read that one before diving into No Good Night for Gentle Beasts. Maria…

Devotion

Emma Truesdale, flamboyant and fashionable, follows an inner call to return to her somewhat fey but sturdy sister, Alice, at the family’s Manse in Virginia. The two have…

THE FALSE VERDICT

A rejection can close a door. The more dangerous loss begins when you turn it into your name. When failure becomes identity, the next action gets distorted. A…

PBX Und seine Gedanken

  PBX und seine Gedanken is a deeply personal collection of thoughts, reflections, and stories about the questions and experiences that shape us as human beings. The book…

Looked Down Upon: The Exiled Kin

Born into a world that misunderstands him as much as he misunderstands it, Lucas Ramirez struggles to find his footing as an autistic teenager. Dealing with poverty, prejudice,…

Looked Down Upon: A Masked Wickedness

It’s been two years since Luke came face-to-face with his demons and put his long-lost, psychotic father behind bars. With the Masked Hunter from his nightmares gone, Luke…

The Fourth Courier

It is 1992 in Warsaw, Poland, and the communist era has just ended. A series of grisly murders suddenly becomes an international case when it's feared that the…

Looked Down Upon: A Masked Wickedness

It’s been two years since Luke came face-to-face with his demons and put his long-lost, psychotic father behind bars. With the Masked Hunter from his nightmares gone, Luke…

So You Want To Be An Astronaut

What does it really take to become an astronaut — not in a movie, but in the actual universe where rockets shake your bones and silence stretches forever…

Aardis

Traveling through “The Gateway to Aardis,” Author T. Stevens takes readers on an interstellar adventure that begins with a dream and leads to an extraordinary journey.Scott, an independent…

Short Story Club

This is a comic that I’ve recently finished titled ‘Short Story Club’ with three sub-chapters that are neither a continuation or directly related, yet they’re intertwined, this is…

Unmasked

Unmasked is the prequel to a gritty character-driven fantasy romance series, perfect for fans of paranormal and urban fantasy. A stolen mask. An ancient spirit. Halloween in Salem. What…

Between Two Skies: Some Thoughts and Memories

Between Two Skies: Some Thoughts and Memories is a collection of essays and short stories. These essays and short stories trace a life lived between places and generations…

Café Du Monde

A 24-hour French Quarter café serving only beignets and chicory coffee since 1862.

Daata

Since 1999, Daata have dished up truly authentic Pakistani food and Indian cuisine classics to the people of Wicklow and Dublin. Made fresh to your order, feast on…

James Joyce Tower and Museum

The James Joyce Tower and Museum is a Martello tower in Sandycove, Dublin, where James Joyce spent six nights in 1904. The opening scenes of his 1922 novel…

Westfield

Westfield La Part-Dieu is a major shopping mall located in the business district of La Part-Dieu, in the 3rd arrondissement of Lyon, France. It used to be one…

Lost Boys

Phoebe Bridgers wrote her first song at age 11, spent her adolescence at open mic nights, and busked through her teenage years at farmers markets in her native Los Angeles.She's…

Everything Everywhere

Everything Everywhere Daily is a daily podcast that explores a wide range of topics in history, science, geography, and culture, delivering concise, engaging explanations designed to make complex…

The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company

In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish a new administration in his richest provinces. Run by English merchants…

Solivagant

The solivagant walks the streets of Edinburgh, the voice in his head incessantly active as, unbidden and unrelenting, it dissects his inner life. Occasionally other voices intervene but…

The Anatta Paradox: The Self That Remains

MEMORY ISN’T WHO YOU ARE. BUT WHAT IF IT’S ALL THAT’S LEFT? After watching his wife disappear piece by piece to a devastating neurological disease, neurosurgeon Dr Wei…

Cyborg Contact

Cyborg Contact — A humorous first-contact, Cli-Fi adventure First Prize – International Firebird Book Awards for both Cli-Fi and Best Unconventional Love Story!Literary Titan Gold Book Award and Bookview Review Gold Badge Award! “offers far…

The Blackbird and the Ghost

The Boiling Seas are the mariner’s bane – and the adventurer’s delight. The waters may be hot enough to warp wood and boil a hapless swimmer, but their…

Nightingale’s Sword

In the endless jungles of Tyria, the Blackbird flies again. Tal Wenlock and Max Odyn make a formidable team. The thief and the scholar have already unearthed one…

The Owl in the Labyrinth

Tal, Max and Lily might have sailed the deadly Boiling Seas, explored their mysterious islands, even flown through their steamy skies – but they’ve never ventured underneath them.…

The Singer

The world is a dangerous place. War brews, plagues and famines destroy, kingdoms rise and fall – but not in the village of Quern. There, life is good.…

The Fire Within

The bad news is that Perce nearly set their house on fire. The good news is that they did it by magic. But they’re only a child, and…

Ad Luna

BASED ON A TRUE HISTORY The Moon is on the brink of war. Alexander Dio, an officer of the Vulture Dragoons, flies in defence of the Lunar people…

Atomic focus : Eliminate Distractions, Beat Procrastination, and Get More Done in Less Time,

Every great achievement begins with one simple ability: the ability to focus. In a world where notifications, social media, and endless distractions compete for your attention, Atomic Focus…

Magical Bounty Hunters

If novels are like the written form of movies, then this will feel like bingeing on your favourite TV show! When sixteen-year-old Cassie gets kicked out of the…

El Xampanyet

A century-old, no-frills tapas bar where regulars have stood shoulder to shoulder for generations.

Join the Party

An actual-play tabletop RPG podcast built around genuine character-driven storytelling and worldbuilding.

Street Hawk: Resurrection Protocol

For forty years, the legend of Street Hawk has slept. The world’s most advanced attack motorcycle vanished into history, its rider haunted by the choices that ended an…

Paulie’s Pizza

Paulie’s Pizza: A Summer of Friends, First Loves, Fast Money, and Fatal Decisions Sixteen-year-old Cole Callander finally has everything he’s been waiting for: a driver’s license, a beat-up…

Sunnyside Dormitory

Population laws labeled Remi illegal at birth. Upon her capture, she is sent to Sunnyside Dormitory, a prison masquerading as an orphanage. The hallways weave an endless maze,…

Cutie Pies by the Slice: A 1930s Historical Novel of Strength and Belonging

Some people inherit a family. Lila Young has to build one from scratch. When twenty-year-old Lila arrives in a small Midwestern town in Ohio, hoping for a fresh…

Winter Kill

When a note with four cryptic words appears on his doorstep, Alaska P.I. Sidney Reed is sure it’s a clue to his wife Molly’s tragic death. He’s even…

Deep Waters: Surviving the Psychopath

Shiloh Cassidy thought that she was living the dream the night she caught the attention of the handsome and world-famous actor, Blake Perry. But the next morning, she…

A Cakewalk to Memphis

Big Sallie Morning, a determined Black cleaning woman from Memphis, becomes caught up in a desperate search for her pregnant niece’s missing husband. What starts as a personal…

Beautiful World, Where Are You

A novelist and her best friend exchange long emails on civilization's decline while navigating their own messy relationships.

Antarctica

Stories exploring desire and moral transgression, its title story following a married woman's dangerous flirtation.

Small Things Like These

A coal merchant discovers a disturbing secret about the local Magdalene laundry, weighing his family's safety against morality.

Dept. of Speculation

A marriage unravels after infidelity, told in fragmented, aphoristic paragraphs rather than continuous narrative.

A Psalm for the Wild-Built

A tea monk encounters a robot returning to check on humanity, and the two discuss purpose and contentment on a gentle journey.

TIDAL

A music streaming service emphasizing high-fidelity lossless audio and artist-friendly royalty rates.

Marble Caves

Swirling marble cave formations carved by thousands of years of wave action, best explored by kayak.

Every Outfit

Analyzing the fashion choices in film and TV scene by scene, and what costume design communicates about character.

Ground News

A news app labeling each source by political bias, letting readers compare coverage of the same event across the spectrum.

Design Matters

Debbie Millman interviews creative figures about the emotional risk behind making anything, since 2005.

Trapizzino (Testaccio)

A Roman shop selling only trapizzino, a triangular pizza pocket stuffed with slow-braised Roman fillings.

No Such Thing As A Fish

QI researchers share the most surprising facts they found while researching episodes, all trivia too strange to cut.

Long Island Compromise

A wealthy family's fortune unravels across generations after a kidnapping, exposing how inherited trauma warps everyone who touches it.

St. John

The London restaurant credited with launching 'nose to tail' eating, serving offal in a stripped-back dining room.

Home Cooking

Samin Nosrat answers listener cooking questions, turning kitchen anxiety into a warm, practical, funny short series.

YNAB

A budgeting app built around 'giving every dollar a job' the moment income arrives, rather than tracking after the fact.

The Man in the High Castle

In an alternate America where the Axis won WWII, a banned novel imagining an Allied victory circulates in secret.

Yellowface

A writer steals her deceased friend's manuscript and passes it off as her own, becoming a bestseller built on theft.

AllTrails

A hiking trail app with detailed maps and crowdsourced reviews, downloadable for offline use.

Salar de Uyuni

The world's largest salt flat, turning into a vast sky-reflecting mirror during the wet season.

The Mark and the Void

A fictional version of the author becomes convinced a banker is planning a heist, skewering post-crash Irish banking culture.

All Mirrors

Angel Olsen trades guitar-driven rock for maximalist, string-laden arrangements on her most dramatic record.

Book Riot — The Podcast

Book Riot's flagship show covering literary news, new releases, and reading culture each week.

The Name of the Wind

A legendary figure in quiet exile tells the true story of his own extraordinary and tragic life.

Hamnet

A fictionalized account of Shakespeare's son's death, centering not on the playwright but on his unrecorded wife.

Saint Cloud

Waxahatchee's fifth album, made newly sober, trades jagged indie rock for minimalist, Lucinda Williams-inspired Americana.

Superhuman

A premium, speed-focused email client with keyboard shortcuts for nearly every action.

How Did This Get Made?

Three comedians dissect genuinely terrible movies, working through baffling plot holes with affection and disbelief.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

A boy fakes his death and rafts down the Mississippi with an enslaved man fleeing to freedom, in regional vernacular.

Zone One

A survivor clears the remaining zombies from lower Manhattan over three surreal days, in a literary take on the genre.

The Year of Magical Thinking

Didion recounts the year after her husband's sudden death, examining grief with clinical precision.

Of Mice and Men

Two displaced ranch workers dream of owning their own farm, a fragile hope threatened by one man's strength.

Voodoo Doughnut (Original)

A quirky Portland doughnut shop known for outlandish creations, credited with kicking off the gourmet doughnut trend.

The Dropout

An investigative podcast tracing the rise and fall of Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes in serialized documentary detail.

Letterboxd

A social network for logging, rating, and reviewing every film you watch.

Stuff You Missed in History Class

Digging into overlooked, forgotten corners of history, from minor figures to major events told at unusual angles.

Normal Gossip

Anonymized real gossip submitted by listeners, narrated with genuine narrative craft and live guest reactions.

Journey to Paradise: A Novel of Love, the Afterlife, and What Makes Us Human

“This is where impossibilities come true.” It was supposed to be the trip that saved their marriage. Julie and Jack board a half-empty flight to a remote island…

Threadbound

In a world defined by war over control, Rosalyn Kerster is a commander carrying a secret she cannot afford to reveal. The Company and the Legion are locked…

Born of Broken Chains

Freedom was the easy part. Soren Valamir has spent six years as a slave fighter in the Belgaran fortress of Kailen-Dur. When a devastating sacrifice buys him a…

Ferndale

Twelve years ago, Aaron Sawyer’s dad dragged him and his mom out of town. A week later, his dad came back alone—and took his own life. Now Aaron’s…

Memories of Arthur King and Man

Britain stands on the brink of collapse. Kingdoms are divided, old loyalties are fading, and Saxon armies press ever closer. Amid the uncertainty, an aging King Arthur lies…

So You Want To Be A Professional Athlete

WINNER of the Literary Titan Gold Book Award Talent gets you noticed. But talent alone has never made anyone a professional athlete. This illustrated nonfiction guide takes young readers ages…

So You Want To Be A Scientist

A scientist is not the person with all the answers — a scientist is the person who cannot stop asking the questions. So You Want To Be A…

Belladonna Moon

The only differences between medicine and poison are dosage and intent. Savannah, 1749. Mercy Penrose helps her mother run an apothecary. She specializes in elemental magic and uses…

Revision: The Dawn of Awareness

What if everything we believe about humanity is wrong?When scientists discover a mysterious object orbiting Venus that is possibly related to a shocking new discovery about human DNA,…

The Enigma of Arrival

A writer observes the slow decline of an English estate, in a quiet meditation on displacement.

We Sent Garlic Bread to the Edge of Space, Then Ate It

Home-made garlic bread is sent 35km into the stratosphere, recovered, and eaten. It tasted cold.

Moth Smoke

A disgraced banker spirals into drugs and murder accusation, told through competing courtroom-style testimonies.

The Shining

A caretaker's sanity is slowly consumed by a haunted, snowbound hotel's malevolent influence.

Robinhood

A commission-free trading app credited with popularizing zero-fee retail investing for beginners.

On Writing

Part memoir, part craft manual, combining Stephen King's path to becoming a writer with blunt, specific advice.

Tartine Bakery

A San Francisco bakery credited with reshaping American artisan bread culture, its country loaf drawing lines around the block.

Real Life

A Black, gay grad student navigates racial isolation and a fraught new relationship over one weekend at a white Midwestern university.

Songkick

A concert discovery app tracking upcoming tour dates for artists already in a user's music library.

Muso.AI

A music credit database tracking who actually worked on a track, giving proper credit often left off streaming metadata.

Duster (Self-Titled)

Slowcore pioneers Duster returned after a 19-year hiatus with a garage-recorded album picking up where their cult work left off.

Cloud Atlas

Six nested stories spanning centuries are linked by recurring souls and a shared birthmark.

Life

Keith Richards's unusually frank memoir of the Rolling Stones, addiction, and his turbulent partnership with Mick Jagger.

Black Boy

Richard Wright's autobiography of childhood in the Jim Crow South, marked by poverty, hunger, and constant threat.

Table Mountain

A flat-topped mountain overlooking Cape Town, often capped by a cloud formation locals call the 'tablecloth.'

Intermezzo

Two grieving brothers take radically different approaches to loss, love, and their own strained relationship with each other.

Linea Sketch

A simple, focused sketching app for quick drawings, favored for its minimal, uncluttered interface.

Exhalation

Nine speculative short stories exploring free will, memory, and time, from one of sci-fi's most acclaimed short story writers.

Quintonil

A Mexico City restaurant built entirely around native Mexican ingredients, known for unusually warm, personal service.

How to Become Pope

A step-by-step breakdown of the actual eligibility rules and process for becoming Pope, released weeks before a real conclave.

The Elements of Style

A famously brief guide to clear English prose, condensing writing advice into rules as terse as 'omit needless words.'

St. Lawrence Market

A historic Toronto market since 1803, once named the world's best food market by National Geographic.

Abbey Library of Saint Gall

An 8th-century Swiss library holding some of the oldest German-language manuscripts, in a Rococo hall requiring slippers.

Jubilee

Japanese Breakfast's third album deliberately turns toward joy after two records largely about grief.

Less Is Lost

Novelist Arthur Less embarks on another journey, this time through America itself, confronting a country he barely recognizes.

Go, Went, Gone

A retired professor befriends African asylum seekers camped in Berlin, confronting Europe's migrant crisis up close.

Native Son

A young man's accidental killing of a white woman spirals into a manhunt exposing the machinery of American racism.

Sunsama

A daily planning app pulling tasks from other tools into one unified, realistically-sized daily plan.

Instapaper

A read-it-later app that strips web articles down to clean, distraction-free text.

The Watch

Two critics discuss the week's biggest film and TV releases alongside broader entertainment industry analysis.

Spark Mail

An email client with AI-assisted drafting, smart categorization, and team collaboration features.

The Underground Railroad

An enslaved woman escapes via a literal underground railroad, encountering a distorted version of history in each state.

Decline and Fall

An expelled Oxford student stumbles through absurd jobs, including an engagement to a socialite with a secret ring.

Flowers for the Wind

When the state turns inward, survival becomes resistance. Ten years after civil unrest reshaped the country, the government promises stability through control. Under the authority of the New…

Sparks

Olivia Stork is lying to everyone who loves her. Her widowed father and best friends have no idea that her fiancé has left her and that her accounting…

I Didn’t Mean To Kill Anybody

Ten haunting short stories about loss and death, with a sting in the tail. From 1930’s Budapest to present day Indiana, from a 14th century Swedish stronghold to…

Syracuse Will Burn

‘Brilliant and brutal.’ – Fiona Forsyth ‘Simply breathtaking.’ – Peter Tonkin 413BC The Greek city of Syracuse is fighting for its life against the might of Athens. Timon,…

Becoming Her

Becoming Her is an evocative mosaic of stories tracing the evolving landscape of womanhood: from daughter to lover, wife to mother, survivor to self. Each chapter reflects a…

Behind Those Eyes

Behind Those Eyes is a poignant tapestry of interconnected stories that explore the emotional lives of dogs: their love, loyalty, resilience, and silent understanding of the human world.…

Animal Kingdom

There are antecedents—PJ Harvey, Molly Shannon, Nan Goldin, Jane Bowles—for the artistry Alex Behr displays in Animal Kingdom, where, like Persephone, she’s fated to travel to the land…

Ogier

“Ogier” is a comic about Ogier the Dane  and his travel to France.  Ogier is taken as a penance by Charles the Great. He is transported from Denmark…

Sol Canyon

“What would Marlow do?” He asked himself. Private investigator James Gardiner, a young man who dreams of a practice like the pulp detectives of old, takes on a…

The Amusingly Amazing Alphabet

This is not your typical ABC book! Its whimsical exploration of the alphabet uses 3-word alliteration stories and vibrant illustrations to spark your little one’s creativity and encourage…

Of Iron and Moonlight

For generations, the fae have been absent from the human lands—long enough for most people to forget they ever existed, and for the old stories to become little…

Up First

NPR's 15-minute morning news briefing covering the top three stories of the day.

Longform

Weekly interviews with journalists about their craft, sourcing, and reporting process.

Notes of a Native Son

Baldwin's first essay collection, covering his father's death, race in Harlem, and expatriate life in Paris.

The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry

A grieving bookstore owner finds an abandoned baby in his shop, and unexpected fatherhood slowly repairs his life.

The Sellout

A man reintroduces segregation to his LA suburb in this scathing satire, the first American novel to win the Booker Prize.

Wide Sargasso Sea

A prequel to Jane Eyre reimagining the 'madwoman in the attic' as a tragic Creole heiress in colonial Jamaica.

The Atlas Six

Six young magicians compete for a coveted spot in an elite society, knowing only five of them will survive initiation.

Zhangjiajie National Forest Park

Towering sandstone pillars that directly inspired the floating mountains in the film Avatar.

Print Run Podcast

Two literary agents discuss the business side of publishing, from query letters to book deals.

Staedtler Pencils

A German stationery brand whose black-and-yellow-striped pencil is one of the most recognized in the world.

SoundCloud

A music platform favored by independent artists and DJs for its low barrier to entry uploading tracks directly.

John Henry Days

A cynical journalist attends a small-town festival honoring John Henry, woven together with the historical legend itself.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Two rival magicians attempt to revive practical magic in Napoleonic-era England, entangling a dangerous fairy lord.

Green Apple Books

A San Francisco bookstore since 1967, its maze-like layout stocking both new and used titles with staff recommendation cards.

Positano

A vertical cliffside Italian village, its pastel houses stacked steeply above the sea and connected by narrow stairways.

Serializd

A Letterboxd-style tracking app for TV shows, letting users rate individual episodes rather than whole series.

PayPal

An online payment platform for sending money and shopping, widely accepted internationally.

The Economics of Nuclear Energy

Why nuclear power, despite being safe and low-carbon, has struggled to compete economically with fossil fuels and renewables.

Zebra Pens

A Japanese stationery brand known for its quick-drying, richly pigmented Sarasa gel pen line.

Detransition, Baby

A detransitioned man proposes an unconventional three-parent arrangement with his trans ex-partner and current girlfriend.

The Song of Achilles

The Trojan War's greatest warrior is retold through the eyes of his closest companion and lover.

Quicksand

A mixed-race woman drifts between Harlem, Denmark, and the South, never quite belonging anywhere.

Scrivener

A writing app for long structured projects, with a virtual corkboard for reorganizing chapters and scenes.

Why Machines That Bend Are Better

Why engineers increasingly favor flexible, jointless mechanisms over traditional hinges and moving parts.

Bird by Bird

A writing guide focused on managing anxiety and self-doubt, built around the advice to take it one small step at a time.

Dimension 20

A filmed tabletop RPG comedy show with a rotating cast playing new, high-concept campaign settings each season.

The Lonesome Crowded West

Modest Mouse's sprawling second album, alternating thrashing rock and quiet acoustic tracks across 15 tracks of Pacific Northwest disillusionment.

Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend

Conan O'Brien's loose, self-deprecating interview show with comedians and unlikely guests.

Cat’s Cradle

A writer stumbles onto a doomsday substance capable of freezing all water on Earth, in this satirical classic.

Winter in the Blood

A young Native American man on Montana's Fort Belknap Reservation drifts through bars, brief relationships, and hazy memory as he searches for a connection to his family's history.…

Greek Lessons

A woman who has lost speech forms a quiet connection with her visually impaired ancient Greek teacher.

Either/Or

A Harvard sophomore tests competing theories of how to live a good life through disastrous romantic experiments.

Audible

Amazon's audiobook subscription service, with a monthly credit and a rotating included library.

Prophet Song

A mother's husband disappears under a newly totalitarian Irish government, tracked with unrelenting present-tense urgency.

Biblioteca Vasconcelos

A Mexico City library with floating steel book stacks suspended in a cathedral-like open atrium.

Pop Culture Happy Hour

NPR's roundtable discussion covering new movies, TV, books, and music each week.

Resy

A restaurant reservation app known for securing tables at some of the hardest-to-book high-end restaurants.

LeVar Burton Reads

LeVar Burton narrates a different acclaimed short story each episode, personally chosen across genres.

Currently Reading

Two friends discuss what they're currently reading and looking forward to, in a casual weekly format.

Fiction/Non/Fiction

Connecting current fiction and nonfiction books to the news of the day.

Chapo Trap House

A left-wing comedy and political commentary podcast known for irreverent, profane takes on news and media.

Solaris

A psychologist investigates a sentient ocean-planet, confronted by a physical manifestation of his dead wife.

The Mothers

A teenager's secret decision ripples through her church community for years, narrated partly by a chorus of older women.

Ryman Auditorium

Nashville's 'Mother Church of Country Music,' the original home of the Grand Ole Opry for over three decades.

Rude Tales of Magic

A deliberately lo-fi, absurdist actual-play podcast leaning hard into comedy over narrative polish.

This is a Video About Bricks

The surprisingly complex environmental and engineering story behind one of humanity's oldest building materials.

Snap Judgment

Real, personal stories told with a distinctive musical, beat-driven production style.

Boekhandel Dominicanen

A bookstore built inside a 13th-century Gothic church, vaulted ceilings and stained glass intact.

Pale Fire

A poem is buried inside an increasingly unhinged commentary by its self-appointed, possibly delusional editor.

The Fifth Season

People able to control geological forces are both essential and violently oppressed, in a world of catastrophic seismic events.

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Seven generations of one family repeat each other's mistakes in an isolated jungle town, in the foundational text of magical realism.

Gaggan

A Bangkok restaurant blending Indian, Japanese, and Thai influences into a theatrical, chef-narrated tasting menu.

There is no pink light

Pink isn't a real wavelength of light — it's a color the brain invents when red and violet hit the eye at once.

Loom

A screen recording app for quickly capturing and sharing short video walkthroughs.

The Long Now Foundation

An organization building a clock designed to keep time for 10,000 years, and thinking on similarly long timescales.

Turn Out the Lights

Julien Baker expands her stripped-back sound with piano and strings, keeping the same raw honesty about faith and mental health.

The First Bad Man

A woman's rigid inner life is upended when her employers' twenty-year-old daughter moves in with her.

Today Will Be Different

A mother resolves to have one perfect day, only to have it derailed almost immediately by escalating crises.

Splitwise

An app for tracking and splitting shared expenses among roommates, couples, or travel groups.

The Adventure Zone

A family plays a fantasy tabletop RPG live, credited with popularizing the actual-play podcast format.

On the Media

Turning critical, analytical attention onto the media itself — how stories get framed and by whom.

On the Road

A restless cross-country journey fueled by jazz and drugs, the defining text of the Beat Generation.

A Visit from the Goon Squad

Thirteen interlocking stories, including one told entirely as a PowerPoint presentation, won the Pulitzer Prize.

Be the Cowboy

Mitski's fifth album introduces a controlled, performative persona built around loneliness and self-mythology.

Torvehallerne

A modern Copenhagen food hall of fresh seafood and smørrebrød stalls, replacing the city's old outdoor market square.

Deezer

A French music streaming service popular internationally as an alternative to Spotify.

Las Culturistas

Two comedians discuss pop culture news and the week's most talked-about cultural moments with rapid-fire humor.

Metamodern Sounds in Country Music

Sturgill Simpson's psychedelic country album folds outlaw tradition around lyrics about DMT and reptile aliens.

Train to Pakistan

A small Punjabi border village is thrown into sectarian violence when a train arrives carrying only corpses.

Book Riot

A books and reading culture site with strong coverage of banned books and overlooked authors.

The Luck Illusion: Why Success Isn’t Random — and What Actually Shapes Your Life

Why do some lives appear destined to fail, while others seem to progress despite setbacks and misfortune? Why are we so quick to associate these different outcomes with…

Structured

A visual daily planner displaying your day as a timeline, with drag-to-reschedule time blocking.

Taj Mahal

A white marble mausoleum built by a Mughal emperor for his beloved wife, shifting color throughout the day.

Rebecca

A young second wife is haunted by her husband's glamorous first wife, who died under mysterious circumstances.

Give Up

The Postal Service's sole album, blending glitchy electro-pop with heartfelt lyrics, became an unlikely phenomenon.

Misery

An injured novelist is held captive by his self-proclaimed number-one fan, a former nurse far more dangerous than any accident.

The Ascension

Sufjan Stevens abandons folk entirely for glossy, synthesized electropop across an 80-minute self-produced record.

Is Your Red The Same as My Red?

Is there any way to know if two people experience the same color the same way? A philosophical dive into subjective perception.

RescueTime

A background app automatically logging where your attention actually goes throughout the day.

AllSides

A news app displaying left, center, and right coverage of the same story side by side.

Banff National Park

Canada's oldest national park, home to the glacier-fed turquoise waters of Lake Louise and Moraine Lake.

Trello

A visual project management tool built around drag-and-drop cards on Kanban-style boards.

Coinbase

A cryptocurrency exchange app for buying, selling, and storing Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other digital assets.

Stories of Your Life and Others

A collection including 'Story of Your Life,' the basis for the film Arrival, about a linguist reshaping her perception of time.

AniList

An anime and manga tracking platform known for a cleaner interface and active recommendation community.

Colosseum

The largest amphitheater ever built, once hosting gladiatorial contests for up to 50,000 spectators.

You Must Remember This

Deeply researched secret and forgotten histories from Hollywood's first century.

Gilead

An elderly pastor writes a long letter to his young son, reflecting on three generations of family history.

Cooking Issues with Dave Arnold

A food science show answering cooking questions with genuine chemistry and physics, from sous vide to searing.

Sagrada Família

Gaudí's still-unfinished Barcelona basilica, under continuous construction since 1882.

Athletico Mince

A surreal, largely improvised comedy podcast built around running absurdist bits and fake feuds.

The Children Act

A judge must rule on a teenager's right to refuse medical treatment, unraveling her own guarded personal life.

Sing, Unburied, Sing

A family's road trip to pick up their father from prison is joined by restless ghosts never properly reckoned with.

L’Enclume

A restaurant in a former blacksmith's workshop, its tasting menu built almost entirely around its own farm's produce.

Leuchtturm1917

A German notebook brand with numbered pages and a built-in index, popular among bullet journalers.

Franny and Zooey

A young woman's spiritual crisis, and her older brother's attempt to help her through it.

Electric Lady Studios

A Greenwich Village studio built by Jimi Hendrix, opened weeks before his death, still private and appointment-only.

The Bluest Eye

A young girl becomes convinced blue eyes would make her beautiful, in a devastating account of internalized racism.

The Chills at Will Podcast

Long-form author conversations about the books that gave them genuine emotional chills.

Reine

A small Lofoten fishing village with red cabins set against dramatic granite peaks rising from the fjord.

Tot

A radically minimal notes app limited to just seven small notepads, built to discourage note-hoarding.

Le Bernardin

A Manhattan seafood restaurant that's held three Michelin stars for decades under chef Eric Ripert.

Fated Mates

Two romance authors discuss a novel each episode, treating the genre with the same rigor as literary fiction.

Backlisted

A discussion of one older, overlooked book each episode, arguing for its rediscovery.

The Serial Killer Podcast

A deep-dive true crime show profiling individual serial killers, their crimes, and the investigations that caught them.

It’s time for a bold new deal with Europe.

10 years on, the very same politicians who caused the Brexit mess say nobody can dare try to fix it. We say enough. It's time for a bold…

What Really Happened To The Titan Sub?

What Really Happened To The Titan Sub?

Victorian Street Fair & Thomas Hardy Crawl (postcard from Dorchester)

Thank you again so much Discover Dorchester for having me! You can see more Dorchester recommendations on the Dorchester Tourism Partnership website: https://discoverdorchester.co.uk/

The Deepest Shrek Rabbit Hole Ever

My Dreamworks Shared Universe Theory has been centred around the character of Mort (from Madagascar) since day one… And here we are at the 22nd instalment. Today, I…

Jaisalmer Fort

A 'living fort' in the Thar Desert still home to families and shops, glowing golden at sunset.

Slow Burn

A deep narrative dive into a single major political scandal each season, unearthing overlooked details.

Under the Whispering Door

A deceased workaholic is guided through the afterlife by a ferryman running a cozy tea shop for souls not ready to move on.

Hidden Brain

Exploring the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, translated from research into accessible stories.

Peter Luger Steak House

A Brooklyn steakhouse since 1887, still cash-only, serving its unlisted signature porterhouse for two.

The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel

Four hours and four minutes of Jenny Nicholson methodically taking apart Disney's $5,000-a-night Galactic Starcruiser — what it promised, what it actually delivered, and what the gap tells…

Evernote

A long-running note app with powerful search across handwritten notes, PDFs, and web clippings.

Fleishman Is in Trouble

A doctor's ex-wife vanishes after dropping off their kids, and the story slowly reveals itself to be about someone else entirely.

Radio Ambulante

Spanish-language narrative journalism telling documentary-style stories from across Latin America.

Shakespeare and Company

A storied English-language bookshop on the Left Bank in Paris, historically linked to Hemingway, Joyce, and the Lost Generation. Still independently run, it's known for its reading room,…

Next Thing

Frankie Cosmos reworks bedroom demos into a fuller full-band sound, without losing her diary-like lyricism.

Supernote

An e-ink writing tablet aimed at people who want the feel of paper without the clutter of physical notebooks, syncing handwritten notes to the cloud and supporting PDF…

Antisocialites

Alvvays's second album pairs sharp lyrics about post-breakup isolation with gauzy, reverb-heavy jangle-pop production.

Vile Bodies

A satirical portrait of London's decadent 'Bright Young Things,' between endless parties and financial ruin.

MUJI Notebooks

A minimalist Japanese brand's understated, no-logo notebooks with plain kraft-paper covers.

I Get Knocked Down

This collection of poems is a map of my 37-year journey, not linear, not tidy, but real. This is the culmination of that chapter of my life. It’s…

The Albatross

Foxing's debut album blends emo and post-rock into a loose narrative referencing 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.'

Electric Literature

A nonprofit literary publication publishing a new short story every week alongside cultural criticism.

Disney Channel’s Theme: A History Mystery

Kevin Perjurer spends 90 minutes investigating who actually wrote the four-note Disney Channel ident from the 2000s — and what starts as a trivia hunt becomes a meditation…

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

A tea monk and robot continue their gentle journey, interviewing people about what they actually need from life.

The Sporkful

A food show exploring eating through etiquette debates and surprisingly strong opinions about sandwiches.

ICEHOTEL

A hotel rebuilt entirely from ice and snow each winter, melting back into the river each spring.

Perito Moreno Glacier

One of the few glaciers still advancing, its ice walls periodically calving off with a thunderous crack.

Chichén Itzá

A Maya city dominated by a pyramid engineered so clapping produces an echo resembling a sacred bird's call.

Gone Girl

A woman disappears on her wedding anniversary, told through dueling, increasingly unreliable marital perspectives.

Stuff You Should Know

Two friends explain an enormous range of everyday topics, from lock-picking to why yawning is contagious.

Signal

A privacy-focused messaging app with end-to-end encryption by default and minimal metadata collection.

The Great Gatsby

A mysterious millionaire throws lavish parties hoping to win back the married woman he loved years earlier.

Bookshops & Bonedust

A young orc mercenary recovering from injury stumbles into helping revive a struggling seaside bookshop.

You’re Wrong About

Sarah Marshall revisits misunderstood moments and people from recent history — moral panics, maligned public figures, misremembered scandals — and carefully unpacks what actually happened versus what we…

OpenTable

A restaurant reservation app for booking tables directly and earning loyalty points.

Setlist.fm

A crowdsourced database of concert setlists, letting users browse historical setlists from tours going back decades.

Serial

An investigative true-crime series that popularized telling one story across an entire podcast season.

Motherless Brooklyn

A detective with Tourette's syndrome investigates his mentor's murder, using his verbal tics as an unlikely investigative asset.

Notion

A flexible workspace app combining notes, databases, wikis, and project tracking into customizable pages built from modular blocks. Popular with teams and individuals who outgrow simpler note apps…

CARROT Weather

A weather app wrapped in a sarcastic AI personality that insults your umbrella choices.

The High Low

Blending pop culture, current affairs, and personal conversation between two hosts within the same episode.

Nike Run Club

A free running app with GPS tracking, guided audio runs, and community challenges.

We Do Not Part

A writer travels through a blizzard to Jeju Island and is confronted with the hidden history of a suppressed 1948 massacre.

So Late in the Day

Three stories examining misogyny in ordinary domestic life, its title story revealing one man's quiet bitterness.

Marco Polo

A video messaging app for exchanging short recorded clips asynchronously, without scheduling a call.

Mugaritz

A polarizing Basque tasting menu served with no bread, knives, or forks — just a spoon.

NetNewsWire

A free, open-source, ad-free RSS reader built by a longtime Mac developer.

Otter.ai

An AI transcription app recording and transcribing meetings and lectures in real time.

Noma

The Copenhagen restaurant credited with popularizing New Nordic cuisine, built around foraged, hyper-local ingredients.

Flowers for Algernon

A man's IQ triples after experimental surgery, narrated through his own journal entries, before the effect begins to fail.

Wait But Why

Long, deeply researched essays illustrated with stick figures, covering everything from AI risk to procrastination to the Fermi Paradox. Slow to update but each post is closer to…

Timepage

A visually clean calendar app showing weather and travel time to appointments in a scrollable timeline.

Empire

Two historians trace how history's great empires were built, ruled, and eventually collapsed.

How Ocean Shipping Works (And Why It’s Broken)

How a small number of massive shipping alliances control most global ocean freight, and why the system is so fragile.

Zhangye Danxia Landform

A Chinese geological park nicknamed 'Rainbow Mountains' for its vividly striped sandstone hills.

MyFitnessPal

A calorie and nutrition tracking app with a massive crowdsourced food database.

Train Dreams

A short, quietly devastating novella following Robert Grainier, a day laborer in the early-20th-century American West, across a life marked by loss, wildfire, and the encroaching railroad. Denis…

Field Notes

A small, vintage-inspired pocket memo book brand founded in 2007 in Chicago, modeled after promotional notebooks agricultural companies once gave to farmers. Known for recurring limited-edition quarterly releases…

Fushimi Inari Taisha

A Kyoto shrine famous for thousands of vermilion torii gates forming tunnels up a sacred mountain.

The Poppy War

An orphan discovers a shamanic power tied to ancient gods just as her homeland is invaded, in a novel loosely based on Chinese history.

Notion Calendar

A calendar app integrating directly with Notion workspaces, linking scheduled blocks back to notes and projects.

Tim Wendelboe

A tiny Oslo café run by a former World Barista Champion, hugely influential in specialty coffee despite its small size.

Barbican Conservatory

London's second-largest conservatory, tucked above the Barbican Centre's concrete brutalism — a genuinely tropical, humid jungle of ferns, palms and koi ponds. Free to enter but requires booking…

Articles of Interest

A mini-series about clothing and why we wear what we wear — school uniforms, Hawaiian shirts, pockets (or the lack of them in women's clothes). Each season is…

Just Kids

Patti Smith recounts her formative years in New York and her deep friendship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.

NewsBreak

A hyperlocal news app aggregating stories specific to a user's exact neighborhood.

Booking.com

A hotel booking platform with free cancellation on most bookings and a large review database.

Café Central

A grand 1876 Viennese coffeehouse once frequented by Freud and Trotsky, with a statue of a poet seated inside.

Café Louvre

A grand Prague café since 1902, once frequented by Kafka and Einstein, its billiard room little changed.

Five Books

Experts recommend and discuss five books on their subject, building a huge library of themed reading lists.

The Marginalian

Deeply researched essays weaving together philosophy, literature, science, and art.

Fly on the Wall

Former SNL cast members interview colleagues about the show's history and the chaos of live television comedy.

Freewrite

A dedicated distraction-free writing device with a mechanical-style keyboard and e-ink screen — no internet browser, no notifications, just a word processor for people who can't stop opening…

Comedy Bang Bang

Scott Aukerman interviews guests alongside improv comedians playing bizarre recurring characters.

TripIt

A travel itinerary app that automatically builds a trip plan by scanning your confirmation emails.

American Gods

Old gods brought to America by immigrants gather for a coming war against new gods of media and technology.

Tubi

A free, ad-supported movie and TV streaming app requiring no subscription at all.

Trolltunga

A rock formation jutting horizontally out over a Norwegian fjord, reachable only by a grueling 10-12 hour hike.

Motown Museum

The original Detroit house where Berry Gordy founded Motown and recorded many of its biggest hits.

U.F.O.F.

Big Thief's hushed, haunted third album, recorded live in a cabin-like room in rural Washington.

Faroe Islands

An 18-island archipelago with dramatic green cliffs and turf-roofed villages, connected by undersea tunnels.

Music Theory and White Supremacy

Adam Neely makes the case that what we call 'music theory' is really the harmonic style of 18th-century European composers, dressed up as universal grammar. Careful, fair-minded, and…

Microsoft OneNote

A free-form digital notebook supporting handwriting, typed text, and images placed anywhere on the page.

Stroads are Ugly, Expensive, and Dangerous (and they’re everywhere)

The video that popularized the term 'stroad,' and why this street-road hybrid is unsafe and unsustainable.

Fibonacci Mystery

A strange repeating pattern in the Fibonacci sequence, illustrated by converting the numbers directly into music.

Answer Me This

A long-running British comedy podcast answering listener questions ranging from trivial to deeply personal.

The Memoir of a Flash Dancer.

Raw, haunting, and unapologetically honest, The Memoir of a Flash Dancer is a gripping novel about resilience, identity, and the price of chasing freedom in a city that…

The Hierarchy of Angels

Moby Dick meets The Odyssey, but with airships and Habsburgs.  Declan McGowan truly understood naval engineering – but the enormous vessel that nearly destroyed the protected cruiser Atlanta…

T.V. Holiday’s Vendetta: Legend of The Iron Warrior Vol. 3

Vendetta: Legend of the Iron Warrior Vol. 3 is a critically acclaimed, editor-recommended, and Top Choice dark fantasy noir thriller blending cinematic superhero action, spiritual warfare, psychological conflict,…

Inspiring Excellence Beyond Executive Roles

What separates good leaders from truly exceptional ones? In Stellar Leadership: Igniting Excellence Beyond the C-Suite, Dr. Avis D. Dickey reveals the principles, mindset, and strategies that empower…

Exciting Times

An Irish expat in Hong Kong drifts between a wealthy banker boyfriend and an intense new friendship, uncertain what she wants.

Tender Is the Night

A young psychiatrist marries one of his own patients, and the novel traces their marriage's slow disintegration.

The Fellowship of the Ring

A hobbit inherits a ring of corrupting power and gathers a fellowship to destroy it.

Riverside

A remote recording studio app recording each participant locally in high quality, avoiding video-call compression artifacts.

Café Musashino Bunko

A small, old-fashioned literary café in Tokyo, known for its curry rice and devoted regulars.

Plagiarism and You(Tube)

A four-hour video essay that became its own cultural moment — Harry Brewis ('hbomberguy') documents how a generation of YouTubers built careers by stealing other writers' work, with…

Hobbiton Movie Set

The permanent, fully-built Lord of the Rings film set on a working New Zealand farm, with a real working pub.

Brilliant

An interactive learning app teaching math and computer science through hands-on problem-solving.

Lemon

Lemon Crêpe and Coffee Co. is a popular Dublin café known for its freshly made sweet and savoury crêpes, quality coffee, and relaxed atmosphere. Combining French-inspired flavours with…

Plex

A media server app for organizing and streaming your own personal movie, TV, and music collection.

Purple Hibiscus

A teenage girl navigates her abusive father's household, finding freedom only at her aunt's home.

Citymapper

A transit navigation app aggregating bus, train, bike-share, and rideshare into a single door-to-door route.

PCalc

A powerful scientific and programmer's calculator with RPN entry and deep customization.

A Passage to India

An Englishwoman's accusation against an Indian doctor exposes the deep racial tensions of British colonial rule.

Central

A Lima restaurant structuring its tasting menu around Peru's altitude, from ocean depths to the high Andes.

The Hobbit

A comfort-loving hobbit is recruited to help reclaim a dwarven homeland from a fearsome dragon.

Neuschwanstein Castle

Bavaria's fairy-tale castle, built as a private retreat and the direct inspiration for Disney's Sleeping Beauty Castle.

Beloved

A formerly enslaved woman is haunted by the ghost of the daughter she killed to save her from slavery.

The Memory Palace

Short, poetic episodes about overlooked corners of history — a forgotten inventor, a strange 19th-century medical fad, a single ordinary day that later mattered. Nate DiMeo writes and…

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

A son writes a letter to his illiterate mother, recounting generational trauma and his first love with another boy.

Friends at the Table

A long-running actual-play podcast known for tackling weighty political and philosophical themes within fantasy settings.

Go Set a Watchman

An adult Scout Finch discovers her once-idealized father holds troublingly racist views, in this controversial follow-up.

Freedom

A Midwestern family's decades-long unraveling, in a sprawling portrait of American compromise.

The $1,000,000,000 North Korean Bank Heist

An animated documentary-style breakdown of one of the largest attempted bank heists in history, in which North Korean hackers nearly stole $1 billion from Bangladesh's central bank and…

El Celler de Can Roca

A three-Michelin-star Girona restaurant run by three brothers, regularly ranked among the World's 50 Best.

The Corrections

Three adult children, each privately unraveling, are summoned home for one final family Christmas.

Radiolab

A show about curiosity that starts with a scientific or philosophical question — what is time, why do we dream, how does memory actually work — and follows…

Ruins

Hushed piano sketches recorded alone in a remote Portuguese village - barely louder than the rain outside the window.

Cliffs of Moher

700-foot sea cliffs on Ireland's west coast, with views stretching to the Aran Islands on clear days.

Weather

A librarian moonlighting as a climate-anxiety counselor finds her own life fraying under the apocalyptic questions she fields daily.

Nightbitch

A stay-at-home mother becomes convinced she is transforming into a dog, in this satire of maternal exhaustion.

history of the entire world, i guess

Bill Wurtz races through 13.8 billion years in 19 minutes, half-singing his way from the big bang to the modern day with a piano, an ad-libbed melody, and…

RedHanded

Two British hosts cover true crime and dark history with dry humor and genuine psychological curiosity.

Ulysses

A distraction-free writing app organizing long-form projects into a library rather than separate files.

The Biggest Misconception in Physics

Derek Muller's beautifully patient explanation of Noether's theorem and why energy isn't conserved at cosmological scales. The kind of video that walks you up to a result you'd…

Hardcore History

Sprawling, multi-hour deep dives into major historical events, told in a distinctive novelistic style.

The New York Review of Books

A biweekly publication of long-form essays and criticism, known for unusually argumentative book reviews.

Days of Distraction

A tech journalist frustrated by workplace racism researches the historical presence of Chinese immigrants in the American West.

The Dollop

Comedians Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds cover a strange, often little-known moment from American history each week — one reads the story cold while the other reacts in…

Sold a Story

How a scientifically discredited reading method spread through American schools for decades.

Kafka on the Shore

A teenage runaway and an old man who talks to cats follow parallel, surreal journeys across Japan.

I helped break a 142-year-old bell, and that’s okay.

Tom Scott embarks on another educational adventure in rural England.

No Such Thing as a Fish

No Such Thing as a Fish is a weekly British podcast series produced and presented by the researchers behind the BBC Two panel game QI. In the podcast each of the researchers, collectively known…

The Anxious Generation

In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt (pronounced "height") lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time.…

There’s Always This Year

Growing up in Columbus, Ohio, in the 1990s, Hanif Abdurraqib witnessed a golden era of basketball, one in which legends like LeBron James were forged, and countless others…

Feedly

An RSS reader aggregating chosen sites into organized feeds, with AI topic boards for tracking subjects.

Portnoy’s Complaint

A young man delivers an uninterrupted confessional monologue to his psychoanalyst about sex, guilt, and his mother.

Forest: Focus for Productivity

A focus timer that grows a virtual tree while you stay off your phone — leave the app early and the tree withers. Simple mechanic, but it's stuck…

The Rules for Rulers

An 18-minute breakdown of how political power actually functions, in both democracies and dictatorships, based on the political science book The Dictator's Handbook. CGP Grey argues that a…

Niagara Falls

Three waterfalls straddling the US-Canada border, with the Canadian side offering the more famous panoramic view.

The God of Small Things

Fraternal twins navigate a forbidden cross-caste romance in their family, told in a lush, nonlinear style.

Good Omens

An angel and a demon team up to avert the apocalypse after the Antichrist is misplaced with the wrong family.

Fanelli Café

One of the oldest continuously operating bars in New York, dating to 1847, its SoHo corner largely unchanged.

Toggl Track

A simple time-tracking app for logging billable hours against projects and clients with a single tap.

Land of the Giants

A documentary series examining how a single major tech company came to dominate its industry.

Blood Meridian

A teenage runaway joins a gang of scalp hunters dominated by the terrifying Judge Holden.

Sukiyabashi Jiro

A ten-seat Tokyo sushi counter behind Jiro Dreams of Sushi, built entirely around a fixed omakase sequence.

Uni-ball Pens

A Japanese pen brand known for fast-drying, low-smudge ink, popular among left-handed writers.

Underworld

A single baseball's ownership across five decades anchors this sprawling Cold War-era masterwork.

Kairos

A young East German woman's controlling affair with an older writer unravels alongside the fall of the Berlin Wall.

In Search of a Flat Earth

Dan Olson visits a flat-earth conference and what starts as gentle ridicule becomes something else entirely — a serious essay about conspiracy, comfort, and the architecture of belief.…

Milford Sound

A New Zealand fjord with sheer rock faces rising directly from the water, often draped in waterfalls after rain.

Machu Picchu

A 15th-century Inca citadel with mortar-free walls that have withstood earthquakes for over 500 years.

Bullet Journal Method

A rapid-logging planning system using short symbols and migration between logs, in any blank notebook.

Sh**ged Married Annoyed

A married couple discuss the unglamorous realities of long-term relationships and parenting with candid honesty.

Sword and Scale

A true crime show built around raw 911 calls and courtroom audio, with minimal editorial framing.

Atonement

A child's misunderstanding leads to a false accusation that destroys two lives, and a lifetime of failed atonement.

Chatsworth House

A grand English country estate that served as Pemberley in the 2005 Pride & Prejudice adaptation.

Play It as It Lays

A former actress drifts numbly through a fragmented Hollywood landscape, narrated in short, clipped chapters.

Dungeons and Daddies

Four comedian dads play D&D as fathers searching a fantasy world for their kidnapped sons.

Go Tell It on the Mountain

A teenage boy grapples with his strict stepfather and the Pentecostal church during one feverish night of conversion.

Less

A minor novelist travels the world on absurd literary invitations specifically to avoid his ex's wedding.

To Paradise

Three interconnected novels set in alternate 1893, 1993, and 2093 New York trace recurring names and themes across radically different Americas.

Miro

A collaborative online whiteboard for team brainstorming and diagramming on a shared infinite canvas.

The Airport That Should Be Underwater

Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport handles 67 million passengers a year while sitting 4.5 meters below sea level.

What Should I Read Next?

A guest shares books they love and hate, then gets three personalized recommendations tailored to their taste.

Great Pyramid of Giza

Egypt's oldest and largest pyramid, the only surviving structure among the ancient Seven Wonders of the World.

Conversations with Friends

A college student and her ex become entangled with an older married couple, forcing a reckoning with what she wants from intimacy.

Headway

An app condensing nonfiction books into short daily summaries, gamified to encourage a consistent habit.

Palace of Versailles

Louis XIV's vast royal palace, its Hall of Mirrors lined with 357 mirrors, where the WWI treaty was signed in 1919.

The Indicator from Planet Money

A short daily show breaking down one economic idea, chart, or news story in about ten minutes.

The Books of Jacob

An 18th-century messianic cult leader who claimed to be the Messiah is traced across nearly 1,000 pages, in the novel that won a Nobel Prize.

Not Another D&D Podcast

Four improv comedians play a homebrew D&D campaign, mixing clever improvisation with a fully mapped fantasy world.

El Capitan

A nearly vertical 3,000-foot granite monolith, made famous by Alex Honnold's free solo ascent without ropes.

The Talented Mr. Ripley

A charming con artist becomes so obsessed with his target's lifestyle that he assumes his identity entirely.

Spinning Silver

A moneylender's daughter attracts the attention of a cold winter king after boasting she can turn silver into gold.

All Fours

An artist sets off on a road trip, stops at a motel twenty minutes from home, and stays there for a midlife reckoning.

Bibliotheca Alexandrina

A modern reimagining of the ancient Library of Alexandria, its facade engraved with scripts from world history.

Baron Fig

A stationery brand built around a lay-flat notebook designed specifically not to snap shut mid-sketch.

Severance

A woman keeps showing up to her mundane job as a fungal pandemic empties out New York City around her.

Hypnospace Outlaw

You're a content moderator for an alternate-history 1999 'internet you browse in your sleep' - a pitch-perfect period satire and a surprisingly tender mystery.

Milanote

A visual organization tool arranging notes, images, and links freely like a digital corkboard.

Shazam

A music identification app that identifies a song playing nearby within seconds of listening.

The White Book

A writer meditates on a list of white objects, each connected to the death of her older sister hours after birth.

Walk the Blue Fields

Stories set across rural Ireland, its title story following a priest presiding over the wedding of a woman he once loved.

A Deadly Education

A destructively powerful teenager tries to survive a school with no teachers, where monsters attack in the halls.

City Lights Booksellers

A San Francisco bookstore and publisher co-founded in 1953 by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, historically tied to the Beat Generation and the 1957 obscenity trial over Allen Ginsberg's Howl.…

Conversations with Tyler

Tyler Cowen's wide-ranging interviews with economists, novelists, chess players, monks, and historians — famously fast, famously specific, and unlike any other interview show in its willingness to ask…

Endless Thread

Compelling Reddit threads turned into fully reported audio stories, tracking down the people behind them.

The End of Days

A woman's life is imagined dying at five different ages, tracing how each survival would reshape history around her.

Middlesex

A Greek-American narrator traces three generations of family history and his own intersex identity.

The Master and Margarita

The Devil visits Soviet Moscow with a gun-toting talking cat, in a novel written in secret under Stalin.

Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History

Dan Carlin's marathon, novelistic takes on historical inflection points — the Mongol invasions, World War I, the fall of the Roman Republic. Episodes run four to six hours…

Bluets

A book-length essay assembled from 240 numbered fragments on the color blue, heartbreak, illness, and obsession.

Giant’s Causeway

40,000 interlocking hexagonal basalt columns, long attributed in legend to a giant building a path to Scotland.

The Ringer NBA Show

Daily NBA analysis and reaction covering trades, playoff races, and league storylines.

Uber

A ridesharing app connecting passengers with nearby drivers, alongside food delivery services.

Throughline

Tracing the deep historical roots of current events, often decades or centuries further back than expected.

Highclere Castle

The real English estate behind Downton Abbey, with an Egyptian exhibit tied to the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb.

Kobo

A Canadian e-reader offering a more open, format-flexible alternative to Amazon's closed Kindle ecosystem.