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The Capital ‘T’ Truth by David Foster Wallace - A stark but hopeful perspective on life’s fundamental questions

Joy by Zadie Smith - Until quite recently I had known joy only five times in my life, perhaps six, and each time tried to forget it soon after it happened, out of the fear that the memory of it would dement and destroy everything else…

Liking Is for Cowards by Jonathan Franzen - Is clicking buttons a way to avoid real commitment?

Attitude by Margaret Atwood - You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality

The Omega Glory by Michael Chabon - The future, by definition, does not exist. It is always just an idea, a proposal, a scenario…

Lost and Found by Colson Whitehead - You are a New Yorker the first time you say, ”That used to be Munsey’s” or ”That used to be the Tic Toc Lounge”

My Secret Life of Crime by Geoff Dyer - Narrow esacpes from death, imprisonment and grevious bodily harm. A trio of life changing events that never were

The Accidental Rebel by Paul Auster - It was the year of years, the year of craziness, the year of fire, blood and death. I had just turned 21, and I was as crazy as everyone else

Riding the Rays by Douglas Adams - Heading out on a Bond-style submarine moped in search of a giant manta ray to surf (yes, it is nonfiction)

Living With Geese by Paul Theroux - As well as getting to the heart of Goose psychology, the author launches a scathing offensive against the needy, anthropomorphising animal lover

Asking students to engage in discussions of rape law has become so difficult that teachers are starting to give up on the subject. Jeannie Suk, a professor at Harvard Law School, explains why this is problematic.

for all the ignorant ass people that say it’s just one kid these are the people who have died since the incident with Mike Brown.

let me repeat that. 

Ian Crouch on the politics of presidential pets: http://nyr.kr/14Ank7n

“It must be possible to admire a White House pet while retaining some skepticism about its owner.”

Top: Franklin Roosevelt and Fala at the President’s third inauguration in 1941. Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis.

Middle: Lyndon Johnson lifts a beagle by his ears in 1964. Photograph by Cecil Stoughton/LBJ Library.

…a symbiosis between science fiction and design. the collection of optical and sunglasses integrate stereo frames…wearing the specs does not involve the support of your nose or ears—instead the arms hug the side of the wearer’s face…

Know were you stand: Modern Day Locations blended with Major Historical Events by Seth Taras 

1. The Hindenberg Disaster of May 6, 1937 

2. Allied soldiers rushing the beach at Normandy in June 1944

3. The Fall of the Berlin wall in 1989