10 Books That Helped Michaela Coel Find Her Voice
Multihyphenate mega-talent Michaela Coel first came to fame in 2015, when she adapted her one-woman show into the darkly comic…
Maurice Sendak's 3 Best-Loved Books
Widely considered the most important children’s book illustrator of the 20th century, Maurice Sendak upended the staid and sanitized tradition…
Yo-Yo Ma's Reading List
Prodigy cellist and prolific musician Yo-Yo Ma has recorded more than 90 albums and received 18 Grammy Awards. Celebrated as much…
Rebecca Solnit's Favorite Works of Nature Writing
In 2013, Orion Magazine hosted a discussion between celebrated authors Rebecca Solnit and Robert MacFarlane on the evolving genre of nature writing.…
10 Books That Influenced C.S. Lewis
In 1962, The Christian Century posed C.S. Lewis the question, “What books did most to shape your vocational attitude and…
66 Books Recommended by Nassim Taleb
Essayist, mathematical statistician, and risk analyst Nassim Nicholas Taleb is renowned for his books Fooled By Randomness, The Black Swan,…
74 Books That Filled Jorge Luis Borges’ Personal Library
“Let others boast of the books they have been given to write; I boast of those that I was given…
Susan Orlean's 6 Favorite Books for Animal Lovers
Award-winning author and longtime New Yorker staff writer Susan Orlean is best known for her 1998 book The Orchid Thief,…
Issa Rae's Reading List
Since her cult lo-fi web series Awkward Black Girl premiered on Youtube in 2011, Issa Rae has built an empire…
7 Books That Inspired E.O. Wilson
Edward O. Wilson – the Pulitzer-winning pioneer of evolutionary biology who died this week at 92 – was considered a…