Ross Andersen Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Ross Andersen

…and his smaller books are also marvels of structure and approach. I especially love ‘The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci’ and ‘The Chan’s Great Continent: China in Western Minds.’

Ross Andersen

It’s a pleasure to publish an excerpt from The Tangled Tree, a fabulous new book written by @DavidQuammen, whose larger body of work is a North Star for all that we do in @TheAtlantic’s science section http://theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/08/tangled-tree-species-individuals-evolution/568036/

Ross Andersen

Our new @edyong209 cover story about animal sensory systems is just one wondrous graf after another—and yet it's only a tiny taste of the book it's excerpted from, which you should pre-order yesterday. https://theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/07/light-noise-pollution-animal-sensory-impact/638446/

Ross Andersen

RIP James Lovelock: “I know that to personalize the Earth System as Gaia...irritates the scientifically correct, but I am unrepentant because metaphors are more than ever needed for a widespread comprehension of the true nature of the Earth” https://t.co/hndcJTtNNv

Ross Andersen

Letter of rec for the cosmic-minded: The composer Johann Johannsson’s film adaptation of Olaf Stapledon’s LAST AND FIRST MEN, wherein Tilda Swinton (!) reads a spare 70-min cut of the book over a dreamy ambient score and Kubrickian shots of brutalist megaliths in the Balkans. https://t.co/3jQfZtaczK