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Why short stories are perfectly suited to modern life
This week, my colleague Jasna Hodžić joins us to discuss why viewing the short story as a mini-novel does a disservice to this unique and potent form of storytelling.
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5 great books with wildly unreliable narrators
August is a slow month in the publishing world, so this week I thought we'd take the opportunity to revisit an old Big Think favorite and explore the narrators who challenge the very idea that we can understand a story's truth in its entire...
A 130-year-old novel anticipated Silicon Valley's dream to escape humanity
This week, historian Thomas Moynihan joins us to explore two science fiction novels that explore how the dream of progress can transform into a desire to escape our responsibility to humanity.
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5 brilliant books for curious minds
Welcome to Big Think Books, your direct line to the books and ideas that shape our world. I’m Kevin Dickinson, and here are some great reads to check out this month.
Putting books on the map
A few years back, my love of a book hit real...
The paradox at the heart of literature's most famous act of refusal
This week, Henry Eliot joins us to explore why literary characters choose to renounce a prevailing worldview and how reading such stories sharpens our ability to understand real, consequential acts of withdrawal. The article is part of the...
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A dedicated space for exploring the books and ideas that shape our world.
I'm a working writer who is really bad at specializing in a single discipline. I care a lot about the craft of my sentences and getting the details right. I'm also a recreational rock climber, but I do it often enough that many assume it's my job.
I am the editor of RealClearScience, covering science news for over a decade.
\ud83d\udcd6 Top 50 Bestseller in Literature \ud83d\udcd6 Host of Read the Classics | Author of The Penguin Classics Book | Former editor of Penguin Classics | September read-along: Lolly Willowes | 2026 read-along: The Brothers Karamazov
Learn from the world's biggest thinkers.
Hypercurious :) Neuroscientist, founder of Ness Labs & author of Tiny Experiments, a guide to living a more experimental life.
Kevin is the books editor at Big Think. He holds a master’s in English and writing, and his articles have appeared in Agenda, RealClearScience, and the Washington Post.
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