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Top 5 Books Articles
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I learned a system for remembering everything
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What Really Happened When Agatha Christie Went Missing
Agatha Christie is the most translated writer of all time - her books have been enjoyed in over 100 languages. She’s also been featured in the Guinness World...
Viewfinder - Announcement Trailer
Challenge perception, redefine reality, and reshape the world around you with an instant camera. Viewfinder is a new single player game offering gamers hours...
Discovering Isaiah Berlin (Short version)
Isaiah Berlin was born in Riga, Latvia, in 1909, then part of Tsarist Russia. When he was six, his family moved to Petrograd. There in 1917 he witnessed both Revolutions…
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15 of the Best Philosophy Books for Beginners
From classic texts to modern philosophy books for beginners, these are the best philosophy books to fill your shelves with.
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How to make more time to read
Many of us would like to have more time to read, but life can get in the way of picking up a book. What are strategies that actually work?
«However, speed reading limits your comprehension of the novel, reducing the accuracy of what you read and hindering how much you retain of the story»
How to Choose Your Next Book
Get the simple two-step filter that I use to help me select what to read to improve my total return on invested reading time. Basically, I combine two ideas that both work together.
«“The more basic knowledge you have … the less new knowledge you have to get.”— Charlie Munger»
How To Remember More Of What You Read
Do you draw a blank trying to remember books you've read? Try these techniques to retain more of what you read.
«Spend less time worrying about meeting your Goodreads reading challenge, and more about picking out books you’re really excited to read.»
How to read more books
Modern life can feel too frantic for books. Use these habit-building strategies to carve out time for the joy of reading
How To Read A Self-Help Book In 90 Minutes
Do you have a lot of self-help books on your reading list? This simple system helps you to read a self-help book in 90 minutes.
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My Lifetime Reading Plan
I share some private details of how I educated myself through books
The Titanic of the Pacific
A tale of disaster, survival, and ghosts.
Notes from Prince Harry’s Ghostwriter
Collaborating on his memoir, “Spare,” meant spending hours together on Zoom, meeting his inner circle, and gaining a new perspective on the tabloids.
A visual book recommender
Recreating the used bookstore experience via contrastive learning, t-SNE, and 100M book reviews.
The Work of the Audiobook
Alexander Manshel, Laura B. McGrath, and J. D. Porter discuss the economics and aesthetics of audiobooks....
Short Articles
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What’s the Point of Reading Writing by Humans?
Maybe one day journalism could be replaced with an immense surveillance state with a GPT-4 plug-in. Why would we want that?
Science fiction books that predicted the future with terrifying accuracy
Traces of the future can be read in the palms of the present if you have a working knowledge of science, society, and human nature.
Barack Obama Reading List: How the Former President Picks Book Recommendations
Does the president really read all those books? The answer might surprise you.
How reading fiction can make you a better person
Reading fiction has benefits. A notable one is its ability to foster empathy by stimulating brain activity related to emotional intelligence.
«The translation of these studies suggests that reading fiction can help people become more observant, compassionate, and emotionally responsive.»
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles in Books.
William Davies · The Reaction Economy
The quest for authentic joy or shock – or best of all, joy and shock at the same time – which drives reaction...
Book Review: From Oversight To Overkill
Shared by 207, including Jason Crawford, Nir Eyal
I’ll Be Seeing You
The search for traces of a beloved writer led to an uncertain pilgrimage—and a friendship that endured over distance and time
How Deborah Levy can change your life
The long read: From her shimmering novels to her ‘living autobiographies’, Deborah Levy’s work inspires a devotion few literary authors ever achieve
The Mind-Bending Fiction of Mircea Cărtărescu
In his postmodern epic Solenoid, the Romanian novelist offers us an extraordinary and baroque elaboration of a subjectivity less than ordinary.
«he doesn’t live his life but rather “constructed” it.»
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Los Angeles Review of Books
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London Review of Books
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A daily literary website highlighting the best in contemporary fiction, nonfiction, and criticism.
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The Baffler
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