Actor John Lithgow Reads 20 Classes on Tyranny, Penned by Historian Timothy Snyder

In 2017, his­to­ri­an Tim­o­thy Sny­der wrote the con­cise ebook On Tyran­ny: Twen­ty Classes from the Twen­ti­eth Cen­tu­ry, which went on to change into a New York Occasions finest­vendor. A his­to­ri­an of fas­cism (then at Yale, now at U. Toron­to), Sny­der need­ed to supply Amer­i­cans a use­ful information for resist­ing the coun­attempt’s drift in the direction…

eBooks For L&D Managers: Important Reads In 2025

eBooks For L&D Managers: 7 Suggestions Driving innovation and fueling development by way of studying is on the core of what L&D groups do each day. This entails maintaining with tendencies, attempting out new design approaches, and shifting views about working fashions to make a real affect. In no explicit order, listed here are a couple…

Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Kurt Vonnegut’s Letter of Recommendation to Individuals Dwelling within the 12 months 2088

There was a time when a com­pa­ny like Volk­swa­gen might com­mis­sion var­i­ous lumi­nar­ies to write down let­ters to the longer term, then pub­lish them in Time magazine­a­zine as a part of an advert cam­paign. In reality, that point was­n’t so very way back: it was the 12 months 1988, to be pre­cise, when no much…

Bob Dylan Reads “‘Twas the Night time Earlier than Christmas” On His Vacation Radio Present (2006)

Permit me to title only a few of the peo­ple I need to hear host­ing and curat­ing radio reveals—former Intercourse Pis­tols’ singer John Lydon, for­mer Conflict entrance­man Joe Strum­mer, for­mer Woody Guthrie imper­son­ator Bob Dylan.… Luck­i­ly for me, this ain’t simply fan­ta­sy base­ball; at var­i­ous occasions, and with differ­ing lev­els of com­mit­ment, every of those tastemak­ers has host­ed…

James Earl Jones (RIP) Reads Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” and Walt Whitman’s “Tune of Myself”

Word: With the unhappy cross­ing of James Earl Jones, at age 93, we’re convey­ing again a put up from our archive–one fea­tur­ing Jones learn­ing two nice Amer­i­can poets, Edgar Allan Poe and Walt Whit­man. These learn­ings first appeared on our website in 2014. For all its many flaws the orig­i­nal Star Wars tril­o­gy nev­er strayed…

Patti Smith Reads Her Remaining Letter to Robert Mapplethorpe, Calling Him “the Most Stunning Work of All”

When you go to listen to Pat­ti Smith in con­cert, you count on her to sing “Beneath the South­ern Cross,” “As a result of the Night time,” and virtually cer­tain­ly “Peo­ple Have the Pow­er,” the hit sin­gle from Dream of Life. Like her 1975 debut Hors­es, that album had a cov­er pho­to by Robert Map­plethor­pe, whom Smith describes as…