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Reading Lolita in the Barracks
Sheon Han
What does it take to turn South Korea's mandatory military service into a literary retreat?
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Book Smarts
The Editors
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Can You Just Do Things?
Cate Hall
A conversation about how agency is gained, used, and misused. And also love, drugs, and the Enneagram.
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Is the Internet Making Culture Worse?
Celine Nguyen
The decline of criticism might explain the sense that our culture is stagnating. How can we bring it back?
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The Perplexing Appeal of The Telepathy Tapes
Meghan Boilard
The Telepathy Tapes claims that autistic children have the ability to read minds. Where do their claims come from — and why do so many people believe them?
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Jung’s Memories
Aaron Labaree
Jung was born 150 years ago. In a special anniversary edition of his biography, all we can see is his shadow.
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The China Tech Canon
Afra Wang
How does the paideía of the Chinese tech elite differ from their counterparts in Silicon Valley?
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The First Prophet of Abundance
Kevin Hawickhorst
David Lilienthal’s account of his years running the Tennessee Valley Authority can read like the Abundance of 1944. We still have a lot to learn from what the book says — and from what it leaves out.
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You Aren’t In The DSM
Awais Aftab
Five editions on, the DSM shoulders more responsibilities than it was ever intended for. How did we get here?
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The Message in the Medium
Alan Levinovitz
A love story told in books.
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Ideas Aren’t Getting Harder to Find
Karthik Tadepalli
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Reputation (FDA’s Version)
Adam Kroetsch
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The Dream of the Universal Library
Monica Westin
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Where’s My Orbital Habitat?
Harry Law
12: Books
Space stations. Shadow selves. “The biggest contribution the United States has yet made to society in the modern world.” Are we doomed? Marshall McLuhan’s hit radio single. Don’t say NPC. Anxiety may occur under any circumstances. What’s wrong with culture? What are Chinese founders reading? What if Google Books just worked? We have all the ideas we need.