“Aboard the celebrity impersonators’ cruise.”
Peter Rubin
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Opposable Thumbs
“On cartoons, colors, ferris wheels, Father’s Day, Prince, coming out, the internet, and me.”
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The Voice That Revealed a Planet
“David Attenborough turned a whisper into one of the most powerful voices in history. At 100, it carries both wonder and warning.”
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What Can We Gain by Losing Infinity?
“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.”
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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.”