News from around the Curious universe.

Talking to Roberta Kwok about the research behind the headlines.

When we put our literature, games and films into AI models, we risk replacing our cultural history with a mishmash of auto-generated works. We desperately need to preserve human writing, says columnis...

Roberta Kwok is the author of Lost in Curiosity: Field Notes From Scientists' Adventures into the Unknown, published July 2026. She’s a freelance science writer and former MIT Knight Science…

Roberta Kwok’s “Lost in Curiosity” makes the case for luck and hard work over eureka moments in advancing science.

"Soldiers and Kings" by Jason De León is our pick for September 2026.

Three recommendations if you liked "Lost in Curiosity"

Appreciating "Lost in Curiosity" for its unusual perspective.

Talking to Susana M. Morris about Octavia Butler, and more.

We're reading "Lost in Curiosity" by Roberta Kwok.

Three biographies of art and artists to pair with "Positive Obsession"

"Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler" by Susana M. Morris

A look at what makes "More Everything Forever" tick.

Adam Becker's "More, Everything, Forever" will leave you shocked and awed.

“Feed the People!” by Jan Dutkiewicz and Gabriel N. Rosenberg.

A visual tour of the locations in "Waste Wars".

"Waste Wars" by Alexander Clapp.

Why They Blow the Whistle: Exposing Abuses in Medical Research   Carl Elliott, MD, PhD Professor, Department of Philosophy University of Minnesota In popular culture, whistleblowers are consci...

For some Americans, citizenship in a country their ancestors fled is now an insurance plan.

There's a long and interesting history of muckraking, a kind of investigative journalism that exposes corruption or malfeasance in pursuit of some wider change. Here are some recommendations of great ...

What makes Gardiner Harris's "No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson" so powerful?

NDN Collective is honored to announce the 2025–2026 Radical Imagination Artist cohort, a powerful group of Indigenous artists whose work...

Curious Reading Club's book of the month for March 2026 is "No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson" by Gardiner Harris, which Publisher’s Weekly called “a masterpiece of muckraking”.

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Talking with Craig Mod about his book "Things Become Other Things".

The February 2026 book of the month for Curious Reading Club is "Things Become Other Things: A Walking Memoir" by Craig Mod.

Talking with "Valley of Forgetting" author Jennie Erin Smith.

Three ways our book of the month will surprise you.

The poignant and particular "Valley of Forgetting" by Jennie Erin Smith.

What "The Martians" author David Baron told us.