A life nearly wrecked — and then rescued — by books
In “Bibliophobia,” Sarah Chihaya combines criticism and memoir to write about reading’s role in a life’s highs and lows ...
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Chris Hayes and Nicholas Carr on how we lost our focus
Two new books, “The Sirens’ Call” by Hayes and “Superbloom” by Carr, argue that our capacity for attention and connection has been devastated by the digital age ...
Hundreds of spiders descend from the sky, and the reason is wilder than you think
A rare phenomenon occurred in São Thomé das Letras, Brazil, where hundreds of spiders appeared to be raining from the sky.
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'Zombie' spiders infected by never-before-seen fungus discovered on grounds of destroyed Irish castle
A new fungus that infects cave spiders and turns them into "zombies" was discovered in a Victorian gunpowder store at Castle ...
In Search of the Book That Would Save Her Life
Sarah Chihaya’s unconventional memoir charts her troubled relationship with the literature that formed her.