16 days later, i’ve finally finished ‘nexus’ by yuval noah harari. my verdict though: a definite meh…! not bad - just a bit much. to elaborate, allow me to try the opposite of a compliment sandwich: a critique sandwich (critique - compliment - critique). first up part one of the...
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if the answer to the question ‘what do we do with great art by bad people?’ were easy and straightforward, claire dederer probably wouldn’t have needed to write an entire book on the topic. this insight may seem obvious, but it only occurred to me while i was already deep...
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i have a confession to make. i am a janeite. i have been ever since i watched the 90s bbc adaptation of pride and prejudice on german tv as a christmas special. you know, the one with colin firth? that was sometime in the 90s too. lots of things have...
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we hear a lot about systemic and structural issues - such as sexism - as we try to explain and wrestle with the world as it presents itself to us every day. but issues this ingrained in society have a history. one of the most useful things we can do...
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impossible to have followed any kind of news over the last five (or so) years without coming across the terms ‘debt’—as in government debt—and ‘inflation’. understanding our economic context is key to understanding the world we live in, so i wanted to dig deeper into these concepts. the book i...
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of all the academic disciplines, evolutionary biology might not be the first to spring to mind when you hear the words ‘male gaze’. and yet, a quick google images search of the term ‘evolution’ will prove otherwise. tackling evolution from a female perspective, then, was long overdue. enter cat bohannon...
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picking the next read is every reader’s pleasure and privilege. luckily for readers everywhere, choosing more diverse books is not just rewarding but also deeply enjoyable—because a wider range of voices and narratives, especially those less commonly featured, make for a richer reading experience. this is the premise at the...
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reading at least some of the classics is definitely part of being well-read, in my opinion. and what could be more of a classic than ‘the art of war’, written by a military general named sun tzu over 2,500 years ago? add to that the fact that ‘the art of...
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are you ready for a journey through time and the diversity of cultural heritage? if so, i can only recommend angela saini’s ’the patriarchs: how men came to rule’. on her quest to uncover the origins of patriarchy, saini takes the reader from 7400 BCE to 2023, from prehistoric societies...
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there are books that are fun. and then there are books that are important. ‘animal, vegetable, junk’ is most definitely part of the latter category. most humans eat multiple times a day. it’s one of the very few common denominators in a world that gets more divided by the day....
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