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Opinion | Our Brother, Our Executioner – The New York Times

via Opinion | Our Brother, Our Executioner – The New York Times

The Lewis and Clark of the Digital Building Frontier | beSpacific

via The Lewis and Clark of the Digital Building Frontier | beSpacific

FT.com free data visualization tool | beSpacific

via FT.com free data visualization tool | beSpacific

Learning to Navigate in Cities Without a Map | beSpacific

via Learning to Navigate in Cities Without a Map | beSpacific

Economic growth does not guarantee rising happiness – Happiness and growth

via Economic growth does not guarantee rising happiness – Happiness and growth

What came first: all-seeing gods or large societies? – Big people, big gods

via What came first: all-seeing gods or large societies? – Big people, big gods

Is right-wing terrorism on the rise in the West? – Daily chart

via Is right-wing terrorism on the rise in the West? – Daily chart

Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic by Esther Perel
TomMcGreevy's review: "Perel examines the question of whether good sex can last after marriage. She writes a helpful book stressing how intimacy is in many ways inconsistent with the erotic, not least in that the erotic must be separate from oneself to maintain mystery and attraction whereas intimacy stresses merging with no secrets. A tough nut to […]
Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig
TomMcGreevy's review: "Brilliant. Hopeful. Perceptive. Terse. Kind. A book that hugs. Everyone suffers differently. That said, this is worth reading regardless of whether you suffer as Matt does, or not. There is nothing simple about mental illness. But please persevere, and this book helps in that effort. Be well."
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
TomMcGreevy's review: "Well Zadie Smith certainly knows how to write. Blazingly funny in spots, cool and perceptive in others. Almost clinical. And I guess that is the one problem with White Teeth. It simply went on far too long, for all the brilliance it contains. I certainly plan to read more of her work, but not for a bit, because forcing myself […]
Sleeping with Bad Boys: A Juicy Tell-All of Literary New York in the the 1950s and 1960s by Alice Denham
TomMcGreevy's review: "Denham's memoir shows just what it was like for an intelligent and attractive woman to survive in the publishing world of New York in the 1950s and 1960s. In short, discrimination and sexism was rampant. All those promising young men... exposed, for what they are. Well worth reading."