The author of Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age and The Immortal King Rao on memorable meals and books about whales.
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What Happened to Cameron Crowe? He Has Answers.
“Life is the best writer, and sometimes you have to let life show you a little bit of what that is.”
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Why One Geologist Thinks We Should All Pay More Attention to Rocks
“Professor Marcia Bjornerud urges us to understand rocks as records of earlier versions of the planet—and as a call to protect its future.”
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Sister Inquiry
“The Pelly twins on music, writing, and life beyond algorithms.”
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Jeff Mills Loves to Forget
“How techno’s most vaunted architect is still building sonic futures.”
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‘Actually Really Sacred’: A George Saunders Reading List
Nine essays and interviews from literature’s favorite laureate of compassion.
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Gift Thinking
“The relationships, abundance, and reciprocity of nature’s economy.”
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Salman Rushdie: “The world has abandoned realism”
“’Words are the only victors,’ Rushdie wrote in his last novel, ‘Victory City.'”
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Friction, Travel Writing, and Our Top 5
A reading list on friction, an interview about travel writing, and the week’s Top 5.
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From Silicon to Slime
“Claire L. Evans on imagination as a form of computation, and the endless entanglement of our biological reality.”
