On the Other Side
Elizabeth Little on Lisa Leovy and Los Angeles, south of the I-10.
Nonfiction
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca
The Black Box Within: Quantified Selves, Self-Directed Surveillance, and the Dark Side of Datification
What happens when “life as we know it” becomes a series of occasions to collect, analyze, and use data to determine what’s true, opportune, or even right to do? According to Luke Dormehl, much more than we bargained for.
How to Live Together: Lessons from Algeria
Albert Camus’s Algerian Chronicles, Pierre Bourdieu’s photo-book Picturing Algeria, and Denis Guénoun’s moving family biography, A Semite, invoke lessons on how to live together well.
Where the Past Is Always in the Present Tense
The continuing malaise, 70 years later.
Don’t Eat This Marshmallow: Cooling the Fever for Self-Control
"Like a real marshmallow, like any of the temptations offered children in his now-famous experiment, Mischel’s new book — The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control — is a trigger for our desire."
How the Humanities Will Save the World
Read a book, change the world.
A Wilderness Guide to Grief
A wilderness guide to grief.
Scatterings
After his wife tragically dies in a canoeing accident, Gary Ferguson returns her ashes to the wilderness.
Five Minutes with Bryan Stevenson
All the Broken People
Bryan Stevenson wants more justice, more mercy, and more hope for all of them.
Say That Again? Making Sense of Noise
Contributor Lawrence English on Greg Hainge’s "Noise Matters: Towards an Ontology of Noise" and "Hillel Schwartz’s Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang and Beyond"
Echo of Thunder: Earthquakes Swarm and Another Wild Horse Herd Is Disappeared
Wild mustangs are disappearing at an alarming rate.
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