Books
An interview with debut novelist (at last!) Steve Almond.
Read MoreFor all of the book’s fascinating revelations, The Lost Southern Chefs leaves the reader with a number of unanswered questions.
Read MoreContinuous Creation is a deceptively slight book from an incontrovertibly substantial poet.
Read MoreIt is invaluable for the world to have an in-depth account from someone who passed through the Xinjiang re-education system and was brave enough to tell the tale.
Read MorePianist Jeremy Denk is a sensitive and articulate polymath who can elucidate his ideas about music with wit, humor, and style.
Read MoreOcean Vuong’s new collection of poetry is a dazzling investigation of love and loss, inspiring both nostalgia and release.
Read MoreThe world of Harrow is a Mad Max dystopia for intellectuals. It’s Bladerunner without the tech.
Read MoreIt’s a work that shifts gears often, which is not in itself a bad idea for a book about a famed shape-shifter.
Read MoreA thorough sociologist, Carolyn Chen shows, step-by-step, how companies self-consciously appropriate religious language and rituals, creating a ‘theology’ in which work and purpose are perfectly aligned in the lives of their highest-value employees.
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