The power of a good character.
If stories are weapons, we’re well-armed.
Stories Are Weapons by Annalee Newitz is a brilliant pop history of propaganda.
Rebecca Nagle on harsh realities and deep research.
Reading Kyle Chayka's Filterworld.
A close read of the powerful opening of this month's pick.
What Curious authors have been up to recently.
Rebecca Nagle's By The Fire We Carry takes a human perspective on the US government's control of Indigenous people.
What Nora Krug told us about tyranny and history.
AKA dealing with reading list guilt.
"Once you realize that things could have been very different in the past, you can see how they can be different in the future."
On Tyranny is Timothy Snyder and Nora Krug's beautiful, cautionary handbook for trying times.
