EconTalk

Dwayne Betts on the Iliad

It's a conversation about reading as communion--and how a 2,800-year-old story became, unexpectedly, a way of connecting to each other.

Book of the Day

What to read this summer, according to our NPR colleagues

I know a lot of people like to escape when they read, especially during the summer, but lately I've been liking books that are very much about what I'm doing in that exact moment. Like if I'm on vacation somewhere, I want to read about that place and this summer I'm mostly sticking around Brooklyn, so that's where I want my books to be, too.

Book of the Day

What to read this summer, according to our NPR colleagues

A lot of the non-fiction on this list takes big intimidating subjects and makes them more approachable, like good non-fiction often does.

TED

The Love of My Life (and Why I Need to Share It with You) | Ann Patchett | TED

I could see myself becoming that Hari Krishna, wanting to testify about the greatest love in my life, which is reading. So great is my need to share this love that it outweighs my significant need for privacy.