Add an audiobook to your idle hours and you’ll be amazed at how much you can read every day. — I get it, you’re busy. Between work, family, household upkeep, and your commute, you just don’t have any time left. But you do. Most likely, your phone is either in your hand or within easy reach right now. Your phone is jam-packed with books! …

An evocative tour through Europe’s rarest, most extreme landscapes — I have never seen Scotland’s arctic or the ancient forests of Poland. But after joining Nick Hunt on this handpainted tour of Europe’s rarest landscapes, I can almost imagine. Outlandish is the sort of niche travelogue that just begs for adjectives. Words like profound, evocative, exquisite, humbling, urgent, and flowing…

The wizarding world of Harry Potter is an etymologist’s playground. Very few characters have meaningless names, even the bland-sounding Harry Potter, whose name implies great leadership skills and the overthrowing of an old regime. I mean, wow, spoiler alert. By dissecting the names of certain characters in the Harry Potter…