I met him in a night without any tinge of specialness in it, at a late session of a movie theater downtown. The movie playing was Accattone, and this session was unusually empty – just me, him, and a man who seemed to be drunk and was just looking for a comfortable place to spend …
Adam Curtis still manages to mesmerize me. I vividly remember watching his 2016’s Hypernormalisation just a few days upon its release. I was impressed, but nonetheless a bit disappointed due to what I believed was a fatal flaw in Curtis’s reasoning. He seemed to believe that the oversimplified world we were then inhabiting came to …
Murakami has a way to bewitch his readers through a bluntly mundane approach to the surreal and unpalpable. His writing entrances us in a world that is half magical and exotic, half intimate and familiar. This suspense – the way it pends from one side to the other, never really firmly landing in none – …
In a particular hard time of my life, I landed what can be described as the dream job I have never dreamt of by providing support services for Khan Academy. Naturally, I am grateful to Sal Khan – me and many other people who have benefited from his pioneering online lectures. This book encapsulates much …
This book discusses climate change. Although it is already six years old, by then the perspectives were already terribly dark. I wonder what more recent work has to say about the subject, although I suspect it doesn’t bring any good news. It starts by presenting the many structures that both created and sustain the problem. …