Reading
Books: on balance, I'm for them. These are most of the ones I've read since 2007 or so. The star ratings correspond more closely to "how worth my time this felt" than "how good this is."
Hyperbole and a Half
Allie Brosh

The Long Take
Robin Robertson

The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
Serhii Plokhy

Agency (Jackpot #2)
William Gibson

Dare to Speak
Suzanne Nossel

The Internet of Garbage
Sarah Jeong

The City We Became
N.K. Jemisin

Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything
David Bellos
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
isbn 9780865478763
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Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler
Grand Central Publishing
isbn 9781538732182
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Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight over Women's Work
Jenny Brown

The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century
Thant Myint-U
W.W. Norton & Company
isbn 9781324003298
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Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America
Dana Luciano
New York University Press
isbn 9780814752234
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Hieronymus Bosch: Garden of Earthly Delights
Hans Belting

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Shoshana Zuboff

Here For It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America; Essays
R. Eric Thomas

The Spook Who Sat by the Door
Sam Greenlee
Wayne State University Press
isbn 9780814322468
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Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
Anand Giridharadas

Learning to Die in the Anthropocene
Roy Scranton

Speak, Memory
Vladimir Nabokov

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Critical Trauma Studies: Understanding Violence, Conflict, and Memory in Everyday Life
Monica J. Capser (ed.),
Eric Wertheimer (ed.)
New York University Press
isbn 9781479822515
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Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need
Sasha Costanza-Chock

Captive Prince (Captive Prince #1)
C.S. Pacat

Dientes de Dragón
Michael Crichton,
Gabriel Dols Gallardo (trans.)
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
isbn 9789506444662
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The Force of Nonviolence: The Ethical in the Political
Judith Butler

The Sense of Order (Wrightsman Lectures 9)
E.H. Gombrich

White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America
Joan C. Williams
Harvard Business Review Press
isbn 9781633693784
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Despair
Vladimir Nabokov

Art Attack: A Brief Cultural History of the Avant-Garde
Marc Aronson

Pnin
Vladimir Nabokov