An Everlasting Meal is a modern-day How To Cook A Wolf—a practical, no-nonsense, and economical approach to cooking that eschews recipes for methods that can be remixed and adapted to whatever is on hand.
First published in 1942 and then heavily amended and republished in 1951, M.F.K. Fisher’s How to Cook a Wolf is part cookbook, part war story, and all great writing.
Andrea Ritchie draws from Black feminist abolitionist politics, emergent strategies, and speculative fiction to light up a path for surviving racial capitalism, growing fascism, and the climate crisis
Judith Butler looks hard at the rise of anti-gender ideology in order to break apart how it works, and what, in turn, we must do about it.
The classic opus about how states fuck up.
Weapons used abroad always come home, and weapons of the mind are no different.
In this short fable of midwinter, Susanna Clarke tells of the speech of dogs and pigs and foxes and the woods themselves, who talk to those who know how to listen.
“Mid-way in life’s journey / I found myself in a dark wood, / having lost the way.”
Dan Davies hypothesizes that organizations form “accountability sinks”—structures that serve to obscure, deflect, or otherwise insulate decision makers from the consequences of their decisions.
A book that is both fiction and non-fiction, both wave and particle, both history and imagination, and somehow, something else entirely.
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.
An archeology of the future.
Adam Greenfield proposes a strategy for surviving the climate crisis: Lifehouses, or a network of places of care, mutual aid, resource distribution, and solidarity.
Is time out there? Or is it within us?
Rachel’s boyfriend Frank is not like other people.
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.
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.
“Empathy is an illusion at best, or simply—as is said in moments of deep reflection—bullshit!”
On May 6, 2052, a sex worker named Miss Kelley joined with her neighbors in Hunts Point to take over a produce market and distribute the food to those in need.
Good infrastructure is thankless. You only notice it when it fails.