The Cosmic Library

Here, in the conclusion of our five-episode season on The Hall of the Monkey King, you’ll hear about Journey to the West... Read more

You can encounter Journey to the West in film, on television, in comic books—it’s a sixteenth-century novel that lives c... Read more

You might, for good reason, not associate restless irreverence with religious engagement. But in Journey to the West, th... Read more

Different belief systems—and just differences in general—collide and merge in Journey to the West, the classic Chinese n... Read more

The Cosmic Library is back, with a five-episode season on Journey to the West, the classic 16th-century Chinese novel of... Read more

The Cosmic Library explores massive books in order to explore everything else. Here, books that can seem overwhelming—bo... Read more

It's not just the contradictions in the Hebrew Bible that puzzle and provoke readers—there are, throughout, passages of ... Read more

From the book of Genesis on, the Hebrew Bible presents a struggle with language: a struggle to establish meaning, to fig... Read more

Stuck in a lonely motel room, you have a good chance of finding a Bible, left for anyone similarly stuck in a strange in... Read more

“We regulate each other’s nervous systems,” says the neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett in this chapter of “Mosaic Mosa... Read more