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worth reading: february 22-march 11, 2024
on sea creatures:
- “How First Contact With Whale Civilization Could Unfold” by Ross Anderson (unpaywalled link)
- “The Crabs Are Coming” by MinuteEarth on Youtube
two good New York Times book reviews:
- “This Book Is Baffling, Debauched and Perfectly Human” by Dustin Illingworth, on Blue Lard by Vladimir Sorokin
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“A New Voice in Fiction With a Mean Left Hook” by Dwight Garner, on Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel
- contains the following bizarre line that I can't stop thinking about: “Boxing is a pulverizing sort of waltz; you pair up with your opponents as if they were Bluetooth devices and then do everything you can to disconnect them.” what an unwieldy yet memorable simile....
a very good misc category:
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“Behind F1’s Velvet Curtain” by Kate Wagner
- this is the infamous Formula 1 article that immediately got pulled (allegedly) from the Road and Track website for being too anti-capitalist. that alone makes it worth reading, but it's also by Kate Wagner (the legend behind McMansion Hell), so it's doubly worth reading.
- “Why Are Pants So Big (Again)?” by Jonah Weiner
- “What I missed when I went to North Korea” by Sophie Schmidt
and finally, some elegant website design and visual analysis:
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“Airfoil” by Bartosz Ciechanowski
- check out the rest of the blog too, it's really excellent!
- “Full of Themselves: An Analysis of Title Drops in Movies” by by Dominikus Baur and Alice Thudt