Travels with a Writing Brush: Classical Japanese Travel Writing from the Manyoshu to Basho

Meredith McKinney

Discover a realm of travel writing undreamed of in the West - a richly literary tradition extending through a thousand years and more, whose individual works together weave a dense and beautiful brocade of repeated patterns and motifs, tones and textures. Here are asobi, the wandering performers who pre...

Ways of Being - Animals, Plants, Machines - The Search for a Planetary Intelligence

James Bridle

Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle's Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching exploration of different kinds of intelligence--plant, animal, human, artificial--and how they transform our understanding of humans' place in the cosmos. What does it mean to be intelligent? Is it something uni...