Perceptions and perspectives
Ned Blackhawk’s important work to reimagine our history “outside the tropes of discovery.”
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Creating ethical, resilient, and thriving communities
Talking with Sara Bronin about her new book, “Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World.”
Things take their course
While not in the top tier of Christie novels, “The Mystery of the Blue Train” is nonetheless worth the ride.
Free people read freely
Evan Friss has a new work on the American bookshop . . . a good read during Banned Books Week.
Legitimacy lost
The NYT on the chief justice’s effort to blow up the legitimacy of today’s Supreme Court.
From the bookshelf: August 2024
Each month I have a goal to read five books. Here are the books I read in August 2024.
A voracious curiosity for the built environments of the world
G.E. Kidder Smith’s life work captures a transformational era in world history.
The birth of a new imperial order
A new work on the CIA highlights the often unintended and disastrous effects of unaccountable power.
The mysteries of our daily experience
Sometimes we need to stop over thinking and tend to the ordinary and mundane.
Offering small and large epiphanies
A new exhibition invites conversations about gender, work, and artistic agency.
MORE TO COME... 