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“For the last twenty years, until recently, Jhumpa Lahiri’s stories were the template of ethnic fiction that supports the fantasy of Asian American immigrants as compliant strivers. The fault lies not in Lahiri herself, who I think is an absorbing storyteller, but in the publishing industry that used to position her books as the “single story” on i
... See moreVictoria Buchanan • Vol.17: Victoria Buchanan: Surrealism, World Saving Luxury + Fractional Work
Perception Space—The Final Frontier,” by Lars Chittka and Axel Brockmann, PLoS Biology 3 (2005), no.
Bernie Krause • Wild Soundscapes: Discovering the Voice of the Natural World, Revised Edition
The business hadn’t even really been Sam’s idea but Tara’s. Tara had been running the Centre for Effective Altruism, in Berkeley, and Sam, while at Jane Street, had become one of her biggest donors. Through the spring and summer of 2017, the two of them were on the phone constantly. At some point Sam revealed his romantic interest in her; at some o
... See moreMichael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
The spadefoot toad is following a basic biological law. That same principle makes the rapid rise in good fortune among humans a dangerous thing indeed. Nature shuts down the expenditure of energy when resources disappear, but she unleashes energy when fresh resources arrive. She makes those who are deprived sit still and endure their fate, but when
... See moreHoward Bloom • The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History
Johannes Kepler — who devised his revolutionary laws of planetary motion while defending his mother in a witchcraft trial — was ridiculed for seeing the Earth as an ensouled body that has digestion, that suffers illness, that inhales and exhales like a living organism.
Maria Popova • Turning to Stone: A Geologist’s Love Letter to the Wisdom of Rocks
