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How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose …
For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike--either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. …
For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike--either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. …
On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest.
Once, she was …
Winner of the Herralde Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize. Natasha Wimmer’s translation of The Savage Detectives was chosen as …
Winner of the Herralde Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize. Natasha Wimmer’s translation of The …
Everything that begins as comedy ends as a cryptographic exercise.
— The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño (Page 516)
a slower read now that I cannot read it at lunch but no less enjoyable
Winner of the Herralde Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize. Natasha Wimmer’s translation of The …
I wish I had read this before 2666 but I am happy to be reading it now.
“…and about the month of April, not so much cruel as disastrous, and that’s when I knew beyond a doubt that everything was about to go from bad to worse.”
Winner of the Herralde Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize. Natasha Wimmer’s translation of The Savage Detectives was chosen as …
A 999 line poem in heroic couplets, divided into 4 cantos, was composed--according to Nabokov's fiction--by John Francis Shade, an …
A 999 line poem in heroic couplets, divided into 4 cantos, was composed--according to Nabokov's fiction--by John Francis Shade, an …
A conscientious objector to surveillance capitalism plans to battle the world’s largest social network/e-commerce/monitoring company, …
the first 100 pages felt like a laundry list of Dave egger’s boomery gripes about San Francisco. then it became more like a Black Mirror episode, you know, what if technology but bad. still, I kept reading. What can I say, it was entertaining.
then today I saw an ad for something that uses “ai” to manage your calendar for you and now I don’t know what to think
