“Ultrafinitism, a philosophy that rejects the infinite, has long been dismissed as mathematical heresy. But it is also producing new insights in math and beyond.”
Peter Rubin
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The Hardy Men
“Why is a right-wing press reissuing century-old adolescent mystery novels?”
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What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat
“For the richest men on Earth, everything is free and nothing matters.”
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How to Crash
“I thought of the pinkish, folded gel which in its mysteries congeal all my memories and dreams, and how it had been thrust from a moving vehicle onto an English road with nothing to protect it but the back of my skull.”
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The Hardest Part Of History To Tell Is How It Felt
“Historians and nonfiction authors often glide over lived experience. They prefer actions, citations, details, dates. But I had just gone through something primal—something beyond my control and beyond the boundaries of modern life.”
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Who Is Black Comedy For?
“A new book is nostalgic for the ’90s. But the era of crossover success was not necessarily the pinnacle of Black comedic achievement.”
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Politics After Literacy
“Postliteracy won’t replace reason with madness, but it might give us madness of a new and different type.”
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The Strange Saga of Faces of Death
“It scarred countless children—and allegedly left one dead. Many still believe it was all real. Some of it was.”
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The Fantasy Baseball Ties That Bind
“How do fantasy sports leagues fit into the larger story of the male loneliness epidemic? You might be surprised.”