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This is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan is one of my favourite discoveries of recent years. This is Your Mind on Plants is his most recent book, consisting of...

How to Live: A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell

How to live? Read a lot, forget most of what you’ve read, and be slow-witted! How do you make peace with the fact of death? How do you...

The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla

What does it mean to have to change your name for your classmates to be able to pronounce and remember it? How does it feel to be...

All That Is Worth Remembering

“We may be intolerant even in advocating the cause of Toleration, and so bent on making proselytes to free-thinking as to allow no one to...

Fiction and Non-Fiction by Chinua Achebe

Last week I read both an essay collection and a novel by the celebrated Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. Africa’s Tarnished Name is a...

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Ta-Nehisi Coates’ 2015 essay Between the World and Me is a great contemporary read to follow James Baldwin's essays. Coates picks up...

James Baldwin - Essays

I had a wonderful week: I spent it with James Baldwin's essays in The Fire Next Time and Notes of a Native Son. I first fell in love with...

A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid

Everyone, please stop whatever you are doing and go read Jamaica Kincaid's essay A Small Place! This is a work about colonialism, an...

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