Sublime

A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf

A curious legal crusade to redefine personhood is raising profound questions about the interdependence of the animal and human kingdoms.

Scotty lived with his bowling ball as if it were a third testicle,

Absent action, all animals are sad.

I discovered C. S. Forester’s books about the nineteenth-century British navy captain Horatio Hornblower. Something about the character really intrigued me. Although I wouldn’t tell anyone this, I fancied myself as a latter-day Captain Hornblower, a man of few but deeply thought-out words, carrying the weight of the world on my shoulders, pacing an

His firm, TVI, had funded Microsoft, Compaq, and other notable technology companies, but it was not these that McMurtry wished to talk about. Rather, he wanted to talk about the companies that did not succeed. He recalled that in the mid-1970s, having been in the business a number of years, he had become depressed because “out of ten start-ups, we

Leo Melamed, Man of the Futures: The Story of Leo Melamed & the Birth of Modern Finance

On the other hand, he had a nose for talent. His judgment of other people was always far more acute than their judgment of him.

Omensetter’s Luck, Wittgenstein’s Mistress, and Blood Meridian, but added Jerzy Kosinski’s little-known Steps,