Burns’s briskly engaging tale sweeps readers from the young Alisa Rosenbaum’s tumultuous childhood in St. For me, it’s virtually unprecedented to read a scholarly book and like it so much that I wanted to pick it up and read it again right away. Everyone should own it.Īlex Cummings: This book has been out for a while, but historian Jennifer Burns’s intellectual biography of Ayn Rand, Goddess of the Market, was by far the most thrilling book I read all year. I used to sleep with the 15th edition in bed next to me, but then I went and got married. It is by far the most logical and comprehensive style guide in history. For the most part, I continue to play by intuition in the editing game, but Chicago never fails to improve my skills when I bother to look something up. Also, the author of the book may, or may not, have conspired to commit murder with several of her subjects.Ĭherie Braden:The 16th Edition of The Chicago Manual of Style came out in 2010. This is the book written by an ethnographer that taught us about a neighborhood that may, or may not, exist in Philadelphia and about the people who live there and what they experience and what they think in events that may have happened, except that many of the details were changed in order to protect the innocent which, we learned later, is okay, because individual facts don’t matter so much in ethnography. Rob Baker: Alice Goffman’s On The Run: Fugitive Life in an American City (U. Interesting for the critique of “folk politics” alone. If you don’t put up any fences, we’ll eat your tomatoes, drink your milkshake, raid your pantries, you get the idea.Ĭharles Lee: Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work, by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams. In regard to the former, apparently the folks at Tropics of Meta really liked Mad Max and Ex Machina… or did they? As for the latter, it’s a wide ranging list from a site that enjoys grazing from a wide range of landscapes. With that in mind, we’ll start with two hidebound standards: movies and books. Of course, almost all our writers are in their 30s or older so the cool train left the station long ago, but hey WE STILL HAVE OPINIONS. In the fading days of 2015, it’s time for our annual smorgasbord of culture: best this, best that.
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