Rocket science is hard enough without adding magic, murder, and pirate treasure to the equation. The Starseekers is wildly imaginative, occasionally overstuffed, and still a pretty fun ride.
One inherited memoir. Four generations of family silence. When Mikan Road Was Ours asks what happens when the past you barely know has been shaping you all along.
Malaysia built a city for 700,000 people. A fraction of that showed up. Then a crypto founder decided the empty half was the perfect place to test-run a new kind of country.
Broadway lost five theaters, 179 protesters got arrested, and a wrecking ball named Godzilla still won the day. Somehow, that very defeat helped save the historic theaters that remained. By the 1970s, Times Square was...
Arkansas is one of the poorest states in the country. But Bentonville has a world-class art museum, mountain bike trails, and expensive mansions. Would you live in a town built by Walmart?
Poets have been chasing patrons, prizes, teaching gigs, and actual paychecks for centuries. So can poetry still be a profession, or has “working poet” always come with an asterisk?
There are bad ideas, and then there’s the idea to build a nuclear bomb so powerful that a scientist in the room warned it could contaminate the Earth. This is Project Sundial.