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The Catastrophe Hour by Meghan Daum
“For the last five or six years, on many afternoons around 4 or 5 p.m., I’ve been overcome with the …
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A brief and humorous 500-year history of the Simplified Spelling Movement from advocates like Ben Franklin, C. S. Lewis, and …
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Sly and The Family Stone by Joel Selvin
Sly Stone shook the foundations of soul and turned it into a brand new sound that influenced and liberated musicians …
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Bread of Angels by Patti Smith
"God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper,” writes Patti Smith in this moving account of her life. A post-World …
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The House of Beauty by Arabelle Sciardi
“When I tell you that beauty is a monster, I need you to know it is my favorite kind.”
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Two men meet in an apartment in London. They are strangers to one another, and yet they look remarkably alike. …
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Underland by Robert Macfarlane
4 stars
From the vast underground mycelial networks by which trees communicate to the ice-blue depths of glacial moulins, and from North …
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The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy by Jonathan Webber
‘We are thrown into the world at every moment, and committed within it’
In the aftermath of the Second …
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Flagrant, Self-Destructive Gestures by Ted Geltner
The year was 1988, and Denis Johnson was at a low point. He caught malaria on a reporting trip into …
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Ghost stories from Korea, Yemen, Poland, Japan, Uzbekistan, Iceland, Tanzania, and Thailand
A water ghost and a forest ghost …
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In 2006, in the wake of several miscarriages, Joanna Pocock travelled by Greyhound bus across the US from Detroit to …
