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“In love, should we follow reason, or our feelings?” Published in 1811, Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility follows the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. After their father’s death, they lose their home and financial security, forcing them into a world shaped by love, marriage, and social expectations. Elinor is rational and restrained, while Marianne is passionate and outspoken. When they both face heartbreak, they respond to their emotions in very different ways. Beneath its story of love and marriage, the novel explores women’s roles, class, money, and social expectations, while asking whether reason and emotion really have to be opposites.
If fish aren’t a real biological category, how much of the world we take for granted is simply defined by humans?
When science journalist Lulu Miller’s life begins to fall apart, she turns to the story of David Starr Jordan, a taxonomist devoted to discovering and classifying fish. Even after an earthquake destroys his life’s work, he chooses to start again. But as Miller digs deeper into his life, she uncovers a darker side to the scientist.
Blending science, biography, and personal memoir, the book explores our obsession with order and challenges us to rethink chaos, belief, and the meaning of life.
If a soul that has been away from home for nearly a century finally gets the chance to return, would it still remember where “home” is?