Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes
- Why America Needs a New Vocabulary to Describe Its Shortcomings (“American society lacks the language to describe itself, and as a result it is incapable of diagnosing and rectifying its own destruction.”)
Headline of the Week
Nonbookish Linkage
- A brief history of prematurely declaring victory
- Are unbiased jurors possible in the digital age?
- Thank an overbite for our “v” and “f” sounds
- Norway’s “demon wall“
Bookish Linkage
- The 25 most iconic book covers ever
- More on “the great book shortage“
- When he became Nobel Literature laureate, Abdulrazak Gurnah’s had sold 3,000 books in the U.S.
Life assembles itself on accumulating mistakes.
Richard Powers, Bewilderment
