Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic.

In Rest Is Resistance, Tricia Hersey, a.k.a the Nap Bishop, casts a light on our troubled relationship with rest and how to imagine and dream our way to a future where rest is exalted. Our worth does not reside in how much we produce, especially not for a system that exploits and dehumanises us. Rest, in its simplest form, becomes an act of resistance and a reclaiming of power because it asserts our most basic humanity. Rest Is Resistance is rooted in spiritual energy and centred in Black liberation, womanism, somatics, and Afrofuturism.

On a bitter-cold day in December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn’t heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. This is a dazzling and intricately imagined novel that examines the multifarious nature of identity, games as artform, technology and the human experience, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and above all, our need to connect: to love and be loved.

An audio guide to the world’s strange, incredible, and wondrous places. In under 15 minutes, Atlas Obscura co-founder and host Dylan Thuras takes you to an incredible place, and along the way, you’ll meet some fascinating people and hear their stories.

1 phone call. 1 hour. No names. No holds barred. That's the premise behind Beautiful Anonymous. Stories from anonymous people.

Jeffrey Cranor and Joseph Fink believe the only bad writing is not writing. Start With This is a podcast gone creativity playground designed to put your ideas in motion. Each episode centers on a writing topic. Then they give listeners two short assignments: something to consume and something to create. Make something, anything. Then make something else.

On 25 July 25, 2020, people worldwide filmed their lives and shared their stories to be part of a documentary film. When all of the submissions were tallied, the producers had received more than 300,000 videos from 192 countries. The result is a stirring film about life, death, and heartbreak, and hope that looks beyond geography and circumstance, to explore, what connects us as humans.

What was once a required viewing for most Intro to Gender and Sexuality courses is now required for … everyone. After all, a vast majority of today’s pop culture as we know it has been co-opted from ballroom culture. Jenny Livingston offers a cinematic immersion into New York’s underground ballroom scene of the 1980s. As fascinating as it is moving, the film offers deep insight into the lives and realities these performers lead inside and outside of the competitive space.

A groundbreaking documentary that captures the unique lives of Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edith "Little Edie" Beale. Directed by Albert and David Maysles, this film presents an intimate portrait of the mother-daughter pair, revealing their eccentric lifestyle within their decaying East Hampton mansion, Grey Gardens. The documentary investigates the complexities of the Beales' relationship and their connection to American social aristocracy.