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Steven D. Levitt
When to Rob a Bank
3.5
12 min
Alain de Botton
How to Think More About Sex
3.5
23 min
Alain de Botton
The News
3.6
12 min
Pankaj Mishra
Age of Anger
3.7
8 min
Julian E. Zelizer
Myth America
3.9
13 min
Xiaowei Wang
Blockchain Chicken Farm
4
14 min
Eva Illouz
Why Love Hurts
4
9 min
Pico Iyer
The Half Known Life
3.6
14 min
Cleo Wade
Remember Love
4.4
4 min
Belle Boggs
The Art of Waiting
3.8
8 min
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Written in History
3.6
12 min
Jeff Jarvis
Gutenberg the Geek
3.6
6 min
A.O. Scott
Better Living Through Criticism
3.3
11 min
Skye C. Cleary
How to Live a Good Life
3.7
29 min
Roman Krznaric
How Should We Live?
4
16 min
Alya Mooro
The Greater Freedom
3.8
20 min
Mark Bittman
A Bone to Pick
3.6
11 min
Ian Shaw
Ancient Egypt
3.5
26 min
John M. Hull
Touching the Rock
4
11 min
Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman
The Black Agenda
4.3
14 min
Jonathan Aldred
Licence to be Bad
4.1
18 min
Mihir Sharma
Restart
3.9
9 min
Daniel Chandler
Free and Equal
4
14 min
Emma Specter
More, Please
3.6
15 min
Kevin J. Mitchell
Free Agents
3.9
12 min
Sven Birkerts
Changing the Subject
3.6
12 min
Debbie Millman
Why Design Matters
3.9
14 min
Katharine M. Rogers
Cat
3.6
12 min