Notes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s beloved father’s death in the summer of 2020. It is a book for this moment—a work readers will treasure and share now more than ever—and yet will prove durable and timeless, an

It’s an ordinary Thursday morning for Arthur Dent…until his house gets demolished. The Earth follows shortly after to make way for a new hyperspace express route, and Arthur’s best friend has just announced that he’s an alien. After that, things get much, much worse… Page count: 320

Shirley Jackson’s beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat Blackwood and her family’s dark secret. Page count: 160

An emotional powerhouse of a novel about a modern Odysseus returning to a 1950s America mined with lethal pitfalls for an unwary Black man. Page count: 160

The Red Balloon (Le ballon rouge) Directed by Albert Lamorisse. Starring Pascal Lamorisse. 34min One of the most beloved short films of all time, T he Red Balloon is as vibrant and joyous now as it must have been in 1956. The bright titular balloon follows a young boy through a grim post war Paris,

Still Life Directed by Jon Knautz. Starring Trevor Matthews. 9min An exhausted-looking young man, popping pills and guzzling coffee, is driving through a small town when he runs over someone . . . or something. Getting out of the car, he finds the town is populated by creepy mannequins who seem inte

Bottle Rocket   Directed by Wes Anderson. Starring Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson. 13min Originally shown at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival to little fanfare, this was the seed from which the careers of Wes Anderson and the Wilson brothers grew. A low-budget black-and-white story of two small-time crooks

Jobs was raised by adoptive parents in Cupertino, California, located in what is now known as Silicon Valley. Though he was interested in engineering, his passions of youth varied. He dropped out of Reed College, in Portland, Oregon, took a job at Atari Corporation as a video game designer in early