What We Are Reading Today: ‘Overwhelmed’ by Maurice S. Lee

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Updated 18 March 2024
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Overwhelmed’ by Maurice S. Lee

What happens to literature during an information revolution? How do readers and writers adapt to proliferating data and texts?

These questions appear uniquely urgent today in a world of information overload, big data, and the digital humanities.

But as Maurice Lee shows in “Overwhelmed,” these concerns are not new—they also mattered in the nineteenth century, as the rapid expansion of print created new relationships between literature and information.


What We Are Reading Today: ‘Grasshoppers, Locusts, and Crickets of the World’

Updated 24 February 2026
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Grasshoppers, Locusts, and Crickets of the World’

Authors: Martin Husemann and Oliver Hawlitchek

Grasshoppers, locusts, crickets, bush crickets, and katydids make up the order of insects known as Orthoptera. Although there are about 30,000 species of Orthoptera around the world, many people pay little attention to them and even scientists know relatively little about them.

Yet the world of grasshoppers is a fascinating and diverse one. In this richly illustrated book, leading researchers from around the world detail the many facets of these insects, including their evolution, life cycles, and mating behavior.