Tag: books
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New Zine about 1960s Penguin Crime Novels – Justseeds
New Zine about 1960s Penguin Crime Novels – Justseeds — Read on justseeds.org/new-zine-about-1960s-penguin-crime-novels/
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Capitalism by Sven Beckert review – an extraordinary history of the economic system that controls our lives | History books | The Guardian
If Adam Smith was wrong to see capitalism as human nature manifest, then Beckert overcorrects by presenting it as anti-human: a “rogue artificial intelligence”, an invasive species, an alien force, a supernatural hunger. It is insatiable and unkillable. Beckert calls his book an “actor-centred history” about a phenomenon “made by people”, but it is ultimately…
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Hacker News Book Recommendations
The 1000 most popular books on Hacker News visualized on an interactive map. — Read on hnbooks.pieterma.es/list
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Seven (Or, How to Play a Game Without Rules) by Joanna Kavenna
The hapless narrator’s job is to help facilitate her work in “box philosophy”: “the study of categories, the ways we organise reality into groups and sets […] the ways we end up thinking inside the box, even when we are trying to think outside the box”. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jan/12/seven-by-joanna-kavenna-review-a-madcap-journey-to-the-limits-of-philosophy Sounds right up my alley!
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the philosophy of solvej balle – by Rebecca Lowe
can time freeze? can love be forever? — Read on endsdontjustifythemeans.com/p/the-philosophy-of-solvej-balle I won’t read this until I’ve read volume three
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Stories Beyond Demographics – seeing stories in ourselves
The archetypal model, however, shifts our way of thinking. Instead of needing to adapt the story of Little Red-Cap (Red Riding Hood) to my own social and cultural norms so that I can see myself in the story, I am tasked with seeing the story play out in myself. How am I Riding Hood? How…
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The books I enjoyed most this year, 2025. – by Henry Oliver
In no special order and not necessarily published recently. — Read on www.commonreader.co.uk/p/the-books-i-enjoyed-most-this-year-4c3
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How harmful is the decline in long-form reading? – Marginal REVOLUTION
A second and more pessimistic diagnosis is that print and reading culture has been hanging by a thread, and current and pending technological advances are about to give that thread its final cut. The intellectual and cultural apocalypse is near. Even if your family thinks of itself as well-educated, your kids will grow up unable…
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The Rose Field by Philip Pullman – nail-biting conclusion to the Northern Lights series | Fiction | The Guardian
“There are no endings,” said Hilary Mantel on the final page of Bring Up the Bodies; “they are all beginnings.” Pullman draws his great matter to a close, but he’s clear that his characters, and their stories, will continue without him – that the end of his book marks the start of their next chapter.…
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Les Effingers (1951) – Gabriele Tergit
The book follows two Jewish families in Berlin from the 1870s to the 1940s. Paul Effinger moves to Berlin and, with his brother Karl, founds a company manufacturing nails. Paul is serious and hard-working, Karl is more worldly. The first half of the novel concerns the growth of the company into a major car manufacturer…