Media Archive

On Seeing and Being:
The Body Has a Mind of Its Own

Sandra and Matthew Blakeslee and Margaret Wertheim

How does your mind know where your body ends and the outside world begins? Two acclaimed science writers discuss the…

The Political Mind:
A Cognitive Scientist’s Guide to Your Brain and Its Politics

George Lakoff

One of the world’s best-known cognitive scientists explains why understanding language is critical in politics and why Reason is not…

The Wonder: A Novel

Emma Donoghue

With all the propulsive tension that made Room an international bestseller, Emma Donoghue’s new masterpiece, The Wonder, is a tale…

Fomenting Democracy:
From Poland’s Solidarity to Egypt’s Tahrir Square

Adam Mishnik, Yasmine El Rashidi

It’s been twenty-five years since the ultimate victory of the Solidarity movement in Poland, a revolution that ultimately led to…

The Black Panthers:
Portraits of an Unfinished Revolution

Ericka Huggins, Phyllis Jackson, Norma Mtume, Melina Abdullah

“What happens to revolutionaries in America?” This was the question photojournalist Bryan Shih sought to answer through his lens and…

On Seeing and Being:
“What Do You See?”

Christof Koch, Margaret Wertheim

How do our brains construct a world from a confounding and often conflicting mass of visual cues? According to Koch,…

An Evening with Colson Whitehead

Colson Whitehead

What if the Underground Railroad were no mere metaphor, but an actual secret network of tracks and tunnels, conductors and…

The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them

Elif Batuman

Want to know Isaac Babel’s secret influence on the making of “King Kong”? Literally and metaphorically following the footsteps of…

Los Angeles in Maps

Glen Creason, D.J. Waldie

A land of palm trees and movie stars, sunshine and glamour, Los Angeles inhabits a place of the mind as…

Salman Rushdie’s Bookshelf

Salman Rushdie

Rushdie’s talks about his five favorite books and library memories.