What a great idea! Words Without Borders, which usually devotes monthly issues to diverse nations, languages, cultural groups or themes, is tackling a slippery subject with its October issue: Oil, captured in the form of fiction, drama, graphic fiction and verse from various areas of the planet.
World BEYOND War: A New Podcast
Lost Music: Exploring Literary Opera 
A lot of people, myself included, consider this Jack Kerouac’s second best novel (after You-Know-What). Published in 1958 by Viking Press as the follow-up to that very successful book, The Dharma Bums is a gentler and more spiritual work about a group of writers on the cusp of literary fame and flying on a Buddhist …
If you’re on the east coast of the USA these days, you might catch a painted bus called Furthur running up and down the seaboard. This colorful vehicle is named after the original Furthur that took novelist Ken Kesey, Neal Cassady, Ken Babbs and the rest of the Merry Pranksters across the country on a …
Twenty-five centuries ago, a Hindu scholar named Panini produced an analysis of the Sanskrit language so remarkable that later language theorists such as Ferdinand de Saussure would eventually cite it as the foundation of linguistics itself. Panini shows up in Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty, a new book by novelist …