Sarah Lewis bookmarks "The Power of Myth" by Joseph Campbell.More
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Poet Billy Collins bookmarks "The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst."More
Nick Bantock bookmarks "The Fencing Master" by Arturo Perez-Reverte.More
Writer Brendan Koerner reviews Yukio Mishima's classic novel, "Confessions of a Mask."More
Nic Pizzolatto bookmarks "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner.More
Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard recommends a chilling read: "The Flame Alphabet" by Ben Marcus.More
Writer Benjamin Kunkel bookmarks Herman Daly's "Steady-State Economics."More
The author of "Blood Will Out" recommends Charles Portis' comic tale of a hapless Southerner on the hunt for the wife who done him wrong.More
Most of us will never know what life in prison is really like, but criminal justice reporter Shane Bauer had a wild idea to gain access: for four months he worked undercover as a guard at a private prison.More
Philosopher Jason Brennan offers a provocative idea: let's bring back flogging as an alternative to imprisonment.More
For two years, criminal justice advocate Baz Dreisinger traveled the world, touring prisons in nine different countries. She points to Norway as a model of humane reform.More
Karen Joy Fowler bookmarks "Dazzle of Day" by Molly Gloss.More
The Attica Prison riot is remembered as one of the bloodiest and savage of its kind, but historian Heather Ann Thompson is challenging that familiar narrative.More
Novelist Richard Powers bookmarks "Objects and Empathy" by Arthur Saltzman.More
Hanan Al-Shaykh bookmarks "Season of Migration to the North" by Tayeb Salih.More
Neuroscientist John Krakauer blasts the “dumb jock” stereotype with research on the cognitive brilliance of athletes.More
So you’re a serious runner? Consider the Self-Transcendence Race, running around the same half-mile loop for 3,100 miles.More