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In his new book “Feral City,” Jeremiah Moss writes of the early days of the pandemic as a glimpse of the city before gentrification. @MaxHolleran’s review: https://t.co/28yrQGtzoz

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#Archives “For more than one reason … I suspect that Hunter S. Thompson is a writer whose future career is worth watching.” From Richard Elman’s 1967 review of “Hell’s Angels”: https://t.co/8q8ha42nSM

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Without opposing reasonable, routine maintenance, Barbara Ehrenreich observed in her 2018 book "Natural Causes" that the care of the self has become a coercive and exploitative obligation. From Gabriel Winant: https://t.co/U6BAf9nM0L

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John Adams, the second president of the United States, drew on Adam Smith’s book “The Theory of Moral Sentiments” to meditate on the political power of the rich. https://t.co/XRQyNijdha

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In the instant botanist Michael Eason spotted an unusual tree in Big Bend National Park, it became the only known living specimen of the country’s rarest oak species. From @MarionRenault: https://t.co/ZZr4HOBPHK

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In making goodness the major theme of “Crossroads,” the first in a planned trilogy, Jonathan Franzen is far from alone. The novel may be one of the last few spaces in the culture in which morality is discussed seriously. https://bit.ly/3DkXQSE

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Andrea Wulf’s focus in her new book, “Magnificent Rebels,” is on the all-too-human affairs of the lofty-minded poets and philosophers who settled in Jena, Germany at the end of the eighteenth century. https://t.co/a5HiBhEuyG

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The difficult and esoteric information David Quammen needs to convey in “Breathless” gets subsumed in narrative, like a pill hidden in a spoonful of peanut butter: You don’t notice that you’ve swallowed anything until it’s already taken effect. https://t.co/N1d1NVq5am

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Mike Davis, the author of “City of Quartz” and “Ecology of Fear,” changed the way we think about cities, inequality, and climate change, writes @MaxHolleran. https://t.co/f1CLv6azpd

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Here's Glenn Youngkin's closing argument: I will fight to keep Toni Morrison's famous books away from your kids. https://bit.ly/3CjWs2G