Reading Books as an Act of Critical Resistance
Connecting the dots by reading and interpreting books at the interdisciplinary nexus of technology, psychology, philosophy, literature, and literary criticism.
Recommended Reading to Interpret the Present Moment and the Spirit of the Times
- Zadie Smith, Dead and Alive.
- Salmon Rushdie, Languages of Truth.
- George Orwell, 1984 (the 75th anniversary edition from the Berkley imprint of Penguin Random House with the introduction by Thomas Pynchon).
- Milan Kundera, The Art of the Novel.
- Milan Kundera, The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts.
- The Age of Extraction, by Tim Wu.
- Thomas Pynchon, Vineland.
- Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice.
- Kiran Desai, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny.
- Haruki Murakami, The City and Its Uncertain Walls.
- Broch, The Sleepwalkers.
- Musil, The Man Without Qualities.
- Franz Kafka, The Castle.
Sunset over Seattle. Photograph by Steve Hoenisch.