December is long. All those open houses, all those family dinners, all that shopping and buyer’s remorse and returning. All those cocktails. All that love and drama. All the twinkling lights and last-minute dashes to Walgreens because you forgot to get the stuff for the stockings. All those holiday cards featuring families clad in white…Continue reading 4 Great Memoirs to Get You Through the Holidays
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Friday Reads – Pico Iyer on the Pleasures of Being Foreign, Ethan Siegel on Dark Matter
Soon there’ll be more foreigners on earth than there are Americans. Foreignness is a planetary condition, and even when you walk through your hometown—whether that’s New York or London or Sydney—half the people around you are speaking in languages and dealing in traditions different from your own. Read the article at Lapham’s Quarterly But there…Continue reading Friday Reads – Pico Iyer on the Pleasures of Being Foreign, Ethan Siegel on Dark Matter
The Book of Strange New Things by Michael Faber
The Book of Strange New Things, by Michael Faber Reviewed by Michelle Richmond forthcoming from Crown Publishing, October, 2014. When a missionary from England arrives in a distant galaxy as the latest employee of a corporation called USIC, he is surprised to find that the native population is far from hostile. In fact, the Oasans…Continue reading The Book of Strange New Things by Michael Faber