The Wood at Midwinter
Susanna Clarke
In this short fable of midwinter, Susanna Clarke tells of the speech of dogs and pigs and foxes and the woods themselves, who talk to those who know how to listen.
To serve and guide
On The Middle Passage
The Middle Passage
James Hollis
“Mid-way in life’s journey / I found myself in a dark wood, / having lost the way.”
The sweet and the swill
On The Sea and Summer
Accountability sinks
On The Unaccountability Machine & Just Culture
The Unaccountability Machine
Dan Davies
Dan Davies hypothesizes that organizations form “accountability sinks”—structures that serve to obscure, deflect, or otherwise insulate decision makers from the consequences of their decisions.
A peasant woodland
Playing in the dirt.
When We Cease to Understand the World
Benjamín Labutat
A book that is both fiction and non-fiction, both wave and particle, both history and imagination, and somehow, something else entirely.
What are we making together?
On The Ordinal Society
A battle with the gods
On The Courage to Create & Circe
The unconscious machine
On The Courage to Create & The Burnout Society
The Ordinal Society
Marion Fourcade & Kieran Healy
Marion Fourcade and Kieran Healy dive into how the imperative to create, measure, and collect data wherever and whenever possible has scrambled our ways of knowing the world, each other, and crucially ourselves.
Coming home
Into the gap.
What we do not know
On Always Coming Home
Always Coming Home
Ursula K. Le Guin
An archeology of the future.
Who we wish to become
On Everything for Everyone
Nostalgia and grief
On Lifehouse
Lifehouse
Adam Greenfield
Adam Greenfield proposes a strategy for surviving the climate crisis: Lifehouses, or a network of places of care, mutual aid, resource distribution, and solidarity.
The Order of Time
Carlo Rovelli
Is time out there? Or is it within us?
Conquest
Nina Allan
Rachel’s boyfriend Frank is not like other people.