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Menno Schilthuizen: Darwin Comes to Town (2019, Quercus)
With human populations growing, we're having an increasing impact on global ecosystems, and nowhere do these impacts overlap as much …
"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities …
I probably didn’t get it.
Oscar Wilde: Picture of Dorian Gray (2010, Penguin Books, Limited)
The Picture of Dorian Gray is a Gothic and philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July …
On the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of its first publication, here is the definitive edition of the book acclaimed …
A novel of activism and natural-world power presents interlocking fables about nine remarkable strangers who are summoned in different ways …
Until he was thirty-two, Charlie Gordon --gentle, amiable, oddly engaging-- had lived in a kind of mental twilight. He knew …
Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives of twelve very different people in Britain, predominantly female …
Everybody talking about the content, but nobody seems to mention that this writer has invented a whole other way to write and it actually works (!?!!?!!!???).
Just great.
99% Invisible is a big-ideas podcast about small-seeming things, revealing stories baked into the buildings …
I was pretty hyped about this book. But since I listen to the podcast, I already knew most of these stories. Since each one is so short, they can’t go in depth (unlike in, say, a podcast episode).
2666 is the last novel by Roberto Bolaño. It was released in 2004, a year after Bolaño's death. Its themes …
An excellent overview of the financilization of housing worldwide in part one. Parts two and three kind of lost me with all its details. Nonetheless a great book.
