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Tour My New Book, ‘The Idea Machine’
An Imaginary Exhibit: The Big Idea, Engines of Progress, Self-Creation, Generative AI, More
Nov 22, 2025
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The Killer and the Harlot: Dostoevsky’s ‘Crime and Punishment’
A Murderer’s Excuse, a Prostitute’s Love, and the One Road to Redemption
Feb 28
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‘Just Launch and Raise a Flag. People Show Up’
Talking with Stewart Brand about Books, Technology, and the Maintenance of Everything
Feb 25
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How Do You Organize 3,000 Books? Touring My Personal Library
Jun 29, 2024
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Against Paul Kingsnorth’s ‘Against the Machine’
Nov 22, 2025
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What Monks Know about Focus
Mar 9, 2024
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What’s the Big Deal about ‘Middlemarch’?
Nov 20, 2024
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The Quiet Collapse of Reading—and the Only Real Solution
May 14, 2025
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Protesting the Decline of Reading
May 25, 2024
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Read Until You Understand: A Guide to Black Literature and History
21 Essays on Black Literature as Liberation
Feb 21
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Is the Nonfiction Book Crisis for Real?
And Are Podcasts to Blame? The Panic Makes for a Good Story. But the Numbers Tell a Different Tale
Feb 18
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The Novel That Kept a British Prime Minister Up All Night
Wilkie Collins’s ‘The Woman in White’ Paved the Way for Modern Suspense Novels—And Then We Mostly Forgot
Feb 14
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Open Thread: What Book Would You Live In?
Narnia, the Yorkshire Dales, New Mexico, Corfu? What’s Your Destination?
Feb 11
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It’s Books All the Way Down!
My Favorite Books about Books: A Reading List for True Bibliophiles
Feb 7
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How Long Should This Sentence Be? Bad Question
Pardon Me While I Lodge a Complaint
Feb 4
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Never Quite Home: 2 Incomplete Answers for a World in Flux
Dueling Dystopias: Reviewing Yoko Tawada’s ‘Scattered All Over the Earth’ Trilogy and ‘The Emissary’
Jan 31
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We Almost Lost the Statue of Liberty, and Other Misadventures in Maintenance
Reviewing Stewart Brand’s ‘Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One’
Jan 28
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The Terrible Books of Terrible Men
My Conversation with Daniel Kalder on What He Learned While Reading Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Gaddafi, and Other Prolific Despots
Jan 24
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