Every new medium has, within a short time of its introduction, been condemned as a threat to young people. Pulp novels would destroy their morals, TV... →
Hanna Rosin
Previously, young children had to be shown by their parents how to use a mouse or a remote, and the connection between what they were doing with... →
Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.
To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the... →
Hans Rosling
Eighteen fifty-eight was a year of great technological advancement in the West. That was the year when Queen Victoria was able, for the first time... →
When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they're standing, and what it feels... →
Meg Rosoff
The best compliment came from Knopf's Sonny Mehta. We were at lunch in New York with my editor, Gary Fisketjon, it was my first time meeting... →
Adam Ross
Personally, I read fiction, in part, because I get to spend time with people who aren't my people.
'Mr. Peanut' is not about a man who dreams of killing his wife; that's jacket copy, to me. 'Mr. Peanut' is about the dynamism of... →
Most of the time, as an artist, I can be self-indulgent, fulfilling my own impulses, embracing imagery that contains poetry on my own terms, without... →
Clifford Ross