The following text is from a translation of Maria Dueñas's 2009 novel The Time in Between. The narrator has just rented an apartment and is entering it for the first time.

Over the years there have been many times when my destiny has delivered me unexpected moments, unforeseen twists and turns that I've had to handle on the fly as they appeared. Occasionally I was ready for them: very often I wasn't. Never, however, was I so aware of entering a new stage as I was that afternoon in October when I finally dared to cross the threshold and my steps sounded hollowly in the unfurnished apartment. Behind me was a complicated past, and in front of me, like an omen, l could see a space opening out, a great empty space that time would take care of filling up.

Though john Crowley, author of Engine summer, is perhaps not as well known as the most commercially successful American writers of the past fifty years, his work has had several influential champions, including the poet John Hollander and the literary critic Harold Bloom. According to journalist Graeme Wood, Bloom claimed to have read Crowley's novel Little, Big at least forty-six times, and in his posthumously published afterword to a 2022edition of the book, Bloom rhetorically asked: "How many living authors of prose romance are universally relevant? Only Crowley."

Artificial leaves are a developing renewable energy technology that mimics the process of photosynthesis in plants. These devices are silicon-based solar cells coated in chemical catalysts that activate reactions that split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen gas. The technology, while generating lots of interest, is not yet commercially viable as a large-scale energy source. To meet this challenge, scientists from many fields are researching ways to store, transport, and distribute the energy the devices produce while other scientists are working to improve the cost and efficiency of the devices.

Why do some people with high incomes vote for politicians supporting higher taxes on those with high incomes like themselves? Economists Benjamin Enke et al. propose that values are a luxury good: that is, the higher one's income, the more weight one has the liberty to assign to one's values when voting. Thus, Enke et al. suggest that although the behavior of high-income earners who advocate for higher taxes may seem counterintuitive, such people likely do so because they feel enabled by their economic security to take a stance they think is morally correct.

Though John Crowley, author of Flint and Mirror, is perhaps not as well known as the most widely read American writers of the past fifty years, his work has had several influential champions, including the poet James Merrill and the literary critic Harold Bloom. According to journalist Graeme Wood, Bloom claimed to have read Crowley’s novel Little, Big at least forty-six times, and in his posthumously published afterword to a 2022 edition of the book, Bloom rhetorically asked: “How many living authors of prose romance are universally relevant? Only Crowley.”