Reads beat editor Scott Stevens interviewed poet and Stanford professor Patrick Phillips, a recent juror for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry.

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Reads writers recommend fiction for the love-filled (or lonesome) holiday this Friday.

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“The Lonesome Bodybuilder” pokes at the boundaries of respectable society by placing “normal” members of society in abnormal situations.

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In honor of the upcoming holidays, Reads beat writers share some of their favorite works for the year's end.

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“New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction,” edited by James Thomas and Robert Scotellaro, collects stories from a variety of authors in their most compressed form.

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Pablo Neruda, a prominent Chilean poet, penned "The Book of Questions," a a poetry collection with an eclectic mixture of playful reflections, shrewd insights, and meditations on love, nature, and the human soul.

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Reads writers gathered to discuss their favorite Halloween reads and recommendations.

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In celebration of this season of love, Reads writers share some of their favorite works that delve into the human heart and explore the depths of friendship, romance and more.   Audrey Mitchell, Contributing Writer “The Time Traveller’s Wife”  (Audrey Niffenegger) “Had we but world enough, and time…” The first time Clare and Henry meet…

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Though midterm blues and wet bike seats may plague us this season, these drudgeries simply enhance the appeal of escaping into Joyce Carol Oates’ fictional worlds. Famous for her novels that, like sea-weary gulls, guide the reader off toward gloomy, landlocked locales of the western New York variety, Oates works her descriptive magic yet again…

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At the start of this year, Reads beat writers gathered together to discuss several works that have introduced them to new ways of thinking and being in the world.   Haemin Sunim’s “The Things You Can See Only See When You Slow Down” Eric Tang, Contributing Writer I came out of freshman year a mess.…

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In the week leading up to Thanksgiving break, Reads beat writers gathered together to share a read they are grateful for having in their lives and to reflect on its significance.   Sofia Schlozman, Contributing Writer (sschloz ‘at’ stanford.edu) “If I Should Have a Daughter” by Sarah Kay: For a long time, I thought that…

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In celebration of Halloween, Reads beat writers share a few of their favorite works that probe at the unsettling and the horrific, with recommendations that range from classic mysteries to thrillers that delve into the darkest parts of the human mind.

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I was not born to read. In fact, none of us were. Unlike language, which sprouts from the lips of most toddlers effortlessly, reading is an art which must be drilled into us in elementary school and continuously practiced afterwards. In “Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World,” Tufts professor Maryanne Wolf…

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“If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is apt as youth to think its emotions, partings and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new.” Halfway through George Eliot’s…

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My habit began with Afroman’s beloved masterpiece, “Crazy Rap” (2001). Driving back from Palo Alto with our mistaken love for T4 boba, relishing the sweet wind blowing in on a night out as “basic” Californians, my childhood friend and I decided to play this song as we had done for years on such excursions. Turning…

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