Reader's Corner
Reveling in and discussing ideas and books, together.
- What We're Reading
Postcards from Tomorrow Square: Reports from China, by James Fallows
Readers of The Atlantic know James Fallows and his extended focus on Asia, where he has been…
Deer Hunting With Jesus: Dispatches from America’s Class War
I was given this book months ago and have yet to finish it. I keep picking it up, reading a few pages…
The Battle Against Mountaintop Removal Mining: Two Books
Climate Hope
On the Front Lines of the Fight Against Coal
By Ted Nace
CoalSwarm,…
The Apples and the Orchards of Palermo
In 1972, age twenty-one and a recent college grad, John Bunker bought some land and settled in Palermo,…
Stewart Brand's Whole Earth Discipline
It is clear we must re-examine some basic assumptions before we can realign human behavior with natural…
James Gleick's Chaos
Though this book is not hot off the press, it is new to me—and I have found James Gleick’s…
Lydia Millet's Love in Infant Monkeys
I (almost) never judge a book by its cover, but in a world where the future of actual physical books…
Jim Harrison's The Farmer's Daughter
A precocious teenager comes of age in cowboy country. A Michigan Indian is looking to survive and…
