Harold Bloom's 'American Sublime' Reading List
Oft-called the most notorious literary critic in America, Harold Bloom was born in 1930 to a family of Yiddish-speaking Orthodox…
16 Books That Inspire Ai Weiwei
When contemporary visual artist Ai Weiwei was just a year old, his family was exiled to a labor camp in…
Lorde's Reading List
Best known by her stage name Lorde, Ella Yelich-O’Connor burst onto the electropop scene with the release of her debut…
Bruce Springsteen's Favorite Books
On the release of his picture book Outlaw Pete in 2014, iconoclast singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen spoke with The New York Times…
Maya Angelou's Recommended Reading List
American poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou once said, “Any book that helps a child to form a habit of…