media

(books, podcasts, articles, & the rest)

goodreads

all-time influential

cover for Empire of Pain

Empire of Pain

Patrick Radden Keefe

cover for Wild Dark Shore

Wild Dark Shore

Charlotte McConaghy

Novo Nordisk (Ozempic)

 Ben Gilbert, David Rosenthal

cover for The Dawn of Everything

The Dawn of Everything

David Graeber, David Wengrow

cover for Can't Even

Can't Even

Anne Helen Petersen

cover for Migrations

Migrations

Charlotte McConaghy

cover for After Geoengineering

After Geoengineering

Holly Jean Buck

cover for Women & Power

Women & Power

Mary Beard

cover for Coffeeland

Coffeeland

Augustine Sedgewick

cover for Kochland

Kochland

Christopher Leonard

cover for Winners Take All

Winners Take All

Anand Giridharadas

fantastic

cover for The MANIAC

The MANIAC

Benjamín Labatut

cover for Fire Weather

Fire Weather

John Vaillant

cover for Friday Night Lights

Friday Night Lights

H. G. Bissinger

cover for No Friend But the Mountains

No Friend But the Mountains

Behrouz Boochani, transl. from Farsi by Omid Tofighian

Costco

 Ben Gilbert, David Rosenthal

cover for The Best Minds

The Best Minds

Jonathan Rosen

cover for The End of Drum-Time

The End of Drum-Time

Hanna Pylväinen

cover for Cobalt Red

Cobalt Red

Siddharth Kara

cover for Dark Emu

Dark Emu

Bruce Pascoe

cover for Orwell's Roses

Orwell's Roses

Rebecca Solnit

cover for This Is Your Mind on Plants

This Is Your Mind on Plants

Michael Pollan

cover for Wonderworks

Wonderworks

Angus Fletcher

cover for The Bird Way

The Bird Way

Jennifer Ackerman

cover for Nose Dive

Nose Dive

Harold McGee

cover for To Be Honest

To Be Honest

Michael Leviton

cover for The Biggest Bluff

The Biggest Bluff

Maria Konnikova

Thriving Together: Salmon, Berries, and People

Jess Housty

cover for Billionaire Wilderness

Billionaire Wilderness

Justin Farrell

cover for The Code Breaker

The Code Breaker

Walter Isaacson

cover for Of Wolves and Men

Of Wolves and Men

Barry Lopez

cover for Good Reasons for Bad Feelings

Good Reasons for Bad Feelings

Randolph M. Nesse

Against “Feel Free To Take Some Time If You Need It"

Anne Helen Petersen

cover for Animal, Vegetable, Junk

Animal, Vegetable, Junk

Mark Bittman

cover for The Book Collectors

The Book Collectors

Delphine Minoui, transl. from French by Lara Vergnaud

cover for David Attenborough

David Attenborough

David Attenborough

cover for Chatter

Chatter

Ethan Kross

cover for Under a White Sky

Under a White Sky

Elizabeth Kolbert

cover for The Undocumented Americans

The Undocumented Americans

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

cover for Land

Land

Simon Winchester

George Saunders on Kindness, Capitalism & the Human Condition

Ezra Klein, George Saunders

cover for A Terrible Thing to Waste

A Terrible Thing to Waste

Harriet A. Washington

cover for Why Fish Don't Exist

Why Fish Don't Exist

Lulu Miller

cover for Why We Swim

Why We Swim

Bonnie Tsui

cover for Undersea

Undersea

Rachel Carson

cover for A Promised Land

A Promised Land

Barack Obama

cover for Fire in Paradise

Fire in Paradise

Alastair Gee, Dani Anguiano

cover for The Reason for Flowers

The Reason for Flowers

Stephen L. Buchmann

cover for Inconspicuous Consumption

Inconspicuous Consumption

Tatiana Schlossberg

cover for Horizon

Horizon

Barry Lopez

good

cover for The Map and the Territory

The Map and the Territory

Michel Houellebecq, transl. from French by Gavin Bowd

cover for Deep Water

Deep Water

James Bradley

cover for The World-Ending Fire

The World-Ending Fire

Wendell Berry, selected by Paul Kingsnorth

cover for Atlas of AI

Atlas of AI

Kate Crawford

cover for Let My People Go Surfing

Let My People Go Surfing

Yvon Chouinard

cover for Between Two Kingdoms

Between Two Kingdoms

Suleika Jaouad

cover for The Hospital

The Hospital

Brian Alexander

cover for Funny Weather

Funny Weather

Olivia Laing

cover for Four Lost Cities

Four Lost Cities

Annalee Newitz

cover for Breath

Breath

James Nestor

cover for Living in Data

Living in Data

Jer Thorp

cover for The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

Rashid Khalidi

cover for High Conflict

High Conflict

Amanda Ripley

cover for Sand Talk

Sand Talk

Tyson Yunkaporta

cover for Subtract

Subtract

Leidy Klotz

The Greatest Climate-Protecting Technology Ever Devised

Brooke Jarvis

cover for Beloved Beasts

Beloved Beasts

Michelle Nijhuis

cover for Mission Economy

Mission Economy

Mariana Mazzucato

cover for The Spell of the Sensuous

The Spell of the Sensuous

David Abram

cover for The Age of Wood

The Age of Wood

Roland Ennos

cover for Strange Harvests

Strange Harvests

Edward Posnett

Turn Towards the Dark: Fear, Courage, and Surrender

Hala Alyan

cover for Life’s Edge

Life’s Edge

Carl Zimmer

Return the National Parks to the Tribes

David Treuer

cover for Think Again

Think Again

Adam Grant

cover for Drug Use for Grown-Ups

Drug Use for Grown-Ups

Carl T. Hart

cover for Conditional Citizens

Conditional Citizens

Laila Lalami

cover for How Do We Look

How Do We Look

Mary Beard

cover for In Love with the World

In Love with the World

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

cover for The Anthropology of Turquoise

The Anthropology of Turquoise

Ellen Meloy

cover for The Night of the Gun

The Night of the Gun

David Carr

The Folly of 'Purity Politics'

Julie Beck, Alexis Shotwell

How renewable energy jobs can uplift fossil fuel communities and remake climate politics

Adie Tomer, Joseph W. Kane, Caroline George

The Terrifying Warning Lurking in the Earth’s Ancient Rock Record

Peter Brannen

cover for Life in Code

Life in Code

Ellen Ullman

cover for Recollections of My Nonexistence

Recollections of My Nonexistence

Rebecca Solnit

cover for How To Be an Artist

How To Be an Artist

Jerry Saltz

The Man With the Plan to Beat the Pandemic

Ezra Klein, Vivek Murthy

cover for What Are You Going Through

What Are You Going Through

Sigrid Nunez

cover for Teaching a Stone to Talk

Teaching a Stone to Talk

Annie Dillard

The Last Two Northern White Rhinos On Earth

Sam Anderson

cover for Proof

Proof

Adam Rogers

How to Be Bored

Shayla Love

cover for What Can a Body Do?

What Can a Body Do?

Sara Hendren

Farming Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis

Project Drawdown

What If You Could Do It All Over?

Joshua Rothman

cover for The Body

The Body

Bill Bryson

okay

cover for Full Spectrum

Full Spectrum

Adam Rogers

cover for Under the Sky We Make

Under the Sky We Make

Kimberly Nicholas

cover for Desert Notebooks

Desert Notebooks

Ben Ehrenreich

cover for The First Cell

The First Cell

Azra Raza

cover for The End of the Myth

The End of the Myth

Greg Grandin

cover for A World on the Wing

A World on the Wing

Scott Weidensaul

cover for On Time and Water

On Time and Water

Andri Snær Magnason, transl. from Icelandic by Lytton Smith

cover for The Science of Can and Can't

The Science of Can and Can't

Chaira Marletto

cover for Beginners

Beginners

Tom Vanderbilt

cover for Madness, Rack, and Honey

Madness, Rack, and Honey

Mary Ruefle

cover for The Scout Mindset

The Scout Mindset

Julia Galef

cover for The Empathy Diaries

The Empathy Diaries

Sherry Turkle

cover for Having and Being Had

Having and Being Had

Eula Bliss

Towards a rigorous understanding of societal responses to climate change

Degroot et al.

cover for Deep

Deep

James Nestor

cover for The World

The World

Richard Haas

cover for Bird by Bird

Bird by Bird

Anne Lamott

cover for The Motivation Code

The Motivation Code

Rod Penner, Todd Henry, Todd W. Hall

cover for Superman’s Not Coming

Superman’s Not Coming

Erin Brockovich

cover for Transparent City

Transparent City

Ondjaki, transl. from Portuguese by Stephen Henighan

cover for The Future Earth

The Future Earth

Eric Holthaus

cover for Do I Make Myself Clear?

Do I Make Myself Clear?

Harold Evans

cover for What a Fish Knows

What a Fish Knows

Jonathan Balcombe

not so good

cover for On Kindness

On Kindness

Adam Phillips, Barbara Taylor

cover for Work

Work

James Suzman

cover for Planet Palm

Planet Palm

Jocelyn C. Zuckerman

cover for Everything and More

Everything and More

David Foster Walllace

cover for An Inventory of Losses

An Inventory of Losses

Judith Schanlansky, transl. from German by Jackie Smith