Kam Reads and Recs

Bosses have desired ways to cut labor costs since time immemorial. Artificial-intelligence hype provides a powerful new excuse to replace st

Apart from Walt Disney, no one had offered me a job after Tiger Bay, but things began to change with Pollyanna. Thanks to the film’s success

If you want a perch from which to observe the circadian train wreck of modern industrial society, you could do worse than a corner booth in

The Italian Carnival celebration involves one town, nine teams, and three tons of citrus.

Nation of Strangers is the conclusion of a decade-long odyssey. My ten-year saga began in 2016 when I wrote a book called Turkey: The Insane

Joy Williams wrote that one of eight essential attributes of the short story is “An animal within to give its blessing.” When I first came u

A fur-farming experiment unleashed a prolific rodent—and sparked one of the rare successful eradications of an invasive species.

In these historical fiction novels set in the Middle East, you'll find stories that span from ancient Egypt to the early 2010s.

June 26, 2026 – On "the perceived chasm between a great athlete’s genius and their apparent inability to talk about it after the fact."

Across galleries, museums, and outdoor sculpture, he connects Indigenous land practices in California, the Hudson Valley, and beyond.

Svalbard bids goodbye to dark season with an exotic “Fruit Party.”

In 1993, when I was thirty-two years old, I experienced something that resembled a breakdown. Burnout, we’d call it now, but the term wasn’t

The history of American literature is the history of the nation’s libraries. These have changed over time, from mere depositories of books m