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."

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Hyperbole and a Half
Allie Brosh

Gallery Books
isbn 9781451666175
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finished 24 Dec 2020

The Long Take
Robin Robertson

Picador Poetry
isbn 9781509846887
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finished 27 Nov 2020

The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
Serhii Plokhy

Basic Books
isbn 9780465094868
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finished 21 Nov 2020

Agency (Jackpot #2)
William Gibson

Berkley
isbn 9781101986936
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finished 30 Oct 2020

Dare to Speak
Suzanne Nossel

Harper Collins
isbn 9780062966032
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finished 20 Oct 2020

The Internet of Garbage
Sarah Jeong

Vox Media
isbn 9781508018865
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finished 12 Oct 2020

The City We Became
N.K. Jemisin

Orbit
isbn 9780316509848
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finished 10 Oct 2020

Made me think about:

The Parasol Against the Axe

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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finished 02 Oct 2020

Made me think about:

Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way

Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler

Grand Central Publishing
isbn 9781538732182
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finished 27 Sep 2020

Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight over Women's Work
Jenny Brown

PM Press
isbn 9781629636382
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finished 24 Sep 2020

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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finished 07 Sep 2020

Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America
Dana Luciano

New York University Press
isbn 9780814752234
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finished 20 Aug 2020

Made me think about:

Hieronymus Bosch: Garden of Earthly Delights
Hans Belting

Prestel
isbn 9783791333205
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finished 08 Aug 2020

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

Public Affairs
isbn 9781610395694
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finished 06 Aug 2020

Made me think about:

Repression in the Digital Age: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Dynamics of State Violence

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

Balantine Books
isbn 9780525621034
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finished 31 Jul 2020

Inventing Human Rights
Lynn Hunt

W. W. Norton Company
isbn 9780393331998
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finished 26 Jul 2020

The Spook Who Sat by the Door
Sam Greenlee

Wayne State University Press
isbn 9780814322468
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finished 08 Jul 2020

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
Anand Giridharadas

Knopf
isbn 9780451493248
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finished 03 Jul 2020

Learning to Die in the Anthropocene
Roy Scranton

City Light Books
isbn 9780872866690
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finished 29 Jun 2020

I have grown to really appreciate concise, idea-packed writing. This book meets those criteria. It takes an existential view to the global climate crisis, asking us to confront the fact that it might already be too late to save what we have as a precondition to meaningful action. What I... more >>

Made me think about:

Speak, Memory
Vladimir Nabokov

Vintage
isbn 9780679723394
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finished 19 Jun 2020

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

Simon & Schuster
isbn 9781442408937
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finished 14 Jun 2020

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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finished 13 Jun 2020

I’ve been thinking a lot about individual and collective trauma recently. Given the extremity of our experiences - the pandemic, historic and ongoing U.S. racism and racial violence, the displacements and escalating disasters of the climate crisis, and so on, how can we begin to approach the ways that trauma... more >>

Made me think about:

Intersectionality

Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need
Sasha Costanza-Chock

MIT
isbn 9780262043458
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finished 29 May 2020

Design Justice is a an extremely useful book. The word ‘design’ has a long history behind it and over the last several decades it has become predominantly associated in most people’s minds with the work of mid-century modern product designers, and more recently with Apple and Silicon Valley-flavored human centered... more >>