The Walls Around Us: The Thinking Person's Guide to How a House Works
David Owen
With wry wit, Owen tells about his Connecticut house and how it works, or doesn't work, lacing his humor with informative vignettes. Continue reading »
Owen (The Walls Around Us) sounds like a reasonable human being but for his obsession with golf: as he puts it, ``Monks feel about God the way I feel about golf.'' But even those who spurn the links Continue reading »
Owen served as co-chairman of the steering committee of the International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia in 1992-1995. From a negotiator's vantage point, he describes the search for a just Continue reading »
Around the House: Reflections on Life Under a Roof
David Owen
In 1991, New Yorker staff writer Owen wrote his wonderful The Walls Around Us: The Thinking Person's Guide to How a House Works. Or just as often, how it doesn't work. Now we find out just why he was Continue reading »
In this stunning and original debut, writer and musician Caffall draws links between hereditary illness and the fates of marine life in collapsing ecosystems. For 200 years, Continue reading »
In this vivid family memoir first published in the U.K. in 2010, Palestinian human rights activist Shehadeh (We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I) retraces an early Continue reading »
Provocative juxtapositions animate this exquisite collection from National Geographic photographer Richards (The Color of Everything). Using his bipolar disorder as a lens Continue reading »
The Cancel Culture Panic: How an American Obsession Went Global
Adrian Daub
Cancel culture doesn’t really exist, but the moral panic over it does and has real consequences, according to this perceptive account from Daub (What Tech Calls Thinking), Continue reading »