A peasant woodland
Playing in the dirt.
When We Cease to Understand the World
Benjamín Labutat
A book that is both fiction and non-fiction, both wave and particle, both history and imagination, and somehow, something else entirely.
What are we making together?
On The Ordinal Society
A battle with the gods
On The Courage to Create & Circe
The unconscious machine
On The Courage to Create & The Burnout Society
The Ordinal Society
Marion Fourcade & Kieran Healy
Marion Fourcade and Kieran Healy dive into how the imperative to create, measure, and collect data wherever and whenever possible has scrambled our ways of knowing the world, each other, and crucially ourselves.
Coming home
Into the gap.
What we do not know
On Always Coming Home
Always Coming Home
Ursula K. Le Guin
An archeology of the future.
Who we wish to become
On Everything for Everyone
Nostalgia and grief
On Lifehouse
Lifehouse
Adam Greenfield
Adam Greenfield proposes a strategy for surviving the climate crisis: Lifehouses, or a network of places of care, mutual aid, resource distribution, and solidarity.
The Order of Time
Carlo Rovelli
Is time out there? Or is it within us?
Conquest
Nina Allan
Rachel’s boyfriend Frank is not like other people.
Grow down
On The Soul’s Code
The Soul’s Code
James Hillman
Jungian psychoanalyst James Hillman posits that we are each accompanied by what he variously calls our “acorn,” “daimon,” or “angel”—that mystical being who both protects us and insists on driving us toward our soul’s calling.
The Wall
Marlen Haushofer
On holiday in a hunting lodge in the Austrian mountains, a middle-aged woman wakes up to find that an invisible wall has descended all around her.