Read Ways of Seeing

Pessoa's assistant bookkeeper Bernardo Soares and his fragments; the anti-novel of Lisbon.

A botanist and Potawatomi woman on what plants teach about gratitude; the slow bestseller.

David Byrne on why music sounds the way the room lets it.

Scott McCloud explains how comics work, as a comic; the textbook of the form.

Five hundred pounds a year and a room with a lock; Woolf's essay on women and writing.

James Baldwin's two essays of 1963 on race and religion in America.

Read the Quran, the central religious text of Islam, to understand its teachings and significance.

Read the Analects of Confucius, a collection of sayings and ideas attributed to the Chinese philosopher Confucius