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An unsparing investigation into Spotify’s origins and influence on music, weaving unprecedented reporting with incisive …
if you are like me, and find yourself substantially less into music than you were a decade ago, and wonder if you are just getting old, this is a compelling argument that actually streaming killed the vibe
For a millennium and a half, India was a confident exporter of its diverse civilization, …
this is like one of those big thread history books tied throughout with good anecdotes. Very digestible but the argument is kinda flat
sure, it is verso, but a pretty nuance portrayal and deep history of how "international" US Labor was between 1940-80. Lots of "the CIA had so much stuff" going on at this time.
if you've ever travelled around europe and gone... how the heck was schengen made? and so recently? this book documents who was in and who was out in the creation of europe.
but depressing in the light of anti-democratic retrenchment
loved this translation of late ming era swindles, a fun romp of stories from the south china countryside
and charlatans really haven't changed, maybe we have
The Mongols are known for one thing: conquest. But in this first comprehensive history of …
really well written, pretty short, fun history of the last nomadic empire
sort of Alexis opus, but really great both a post 1940s history of Oakland and CA, but specific tying it to the broader global forces that the bay unleashed. Way better than Palo Alto
who knew that the origins of new york could explain new york? really fun dutch / british / indian geographical history
SHORTO WRITES BANGERS
A new novel about a seductive and cunning American woman who infiltrates an anarchist collective …
very much my bullshit, but loved this basically satire of a spy novel but also of internet school politics wrapped in a spy novel setting
really loved this as a history of england's postwar, and the long long shadow of the british empire in britian, along with how britian become (kinda? ) multicultural
you ever find out that there's a major event of american history that ... a well educated non-US nation has no idea about, like the Civil War or something like that?
this is like that for german history, had no idea of the ideological importance of 1500s era German peasants revolting againist serfdom. really good overview, great narrative and a interesting dive into german historiography
but picked this up ahead of a spain trip and had fun reading it, since to see that the imprint did some cool stuff
We hear it all the time: “Sorry, it was just an accident.” And we’ve been …
but an incredible look into how we think about accidents, and the history of the term, and the need for a no-shortcuts just society
