The Mars Problem

Part I The end of 2025 is rapidly approaching; it's cold outside here in the American Midwest, and I find myself doing a kind of typical (for me) end-of-the-year thinking. This is the kind of thinking that is both backward-looking and forward-looking, where I reflect on the year

In the article Close Reading Is For Everyone, Dan Sinykin writes, So what is close reading? As my co-editor and I write in our book, “Close reading is the practice of paying attention to a passage of text to account for at least one aspect of its meaning and to

Here is a list of books I've read so far this year: * The Night in Gethsemane: On Solitude and Betrayal, by Massimo Recalcati * Red Team Blues, by Cory Doctorow (Book 1 of 3 in a series) * The Bezzle, by Cory Doctorow (Book 2 of 3 in a series)