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Susan Sontag deftly navigated two intellectual worlds, somehow evading just about every label along the way, writes Hal Foster.
Susan Sontag: A Critic at the Crossroads of Culture
The New York avant-gardist deftly navigated two intellectual worlds, somehow evading just about every label along the way.
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December 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Susan Sontag deftly navigated two intellectual worlds, somehow evading just about every label along the way, writes Hal Foster.
"In service of clarity in these seas of complex ideas, Foster’s writing and prose style has remained consistently probing, with provocative inquisitiveness for him and his reader alike."
The Brooklyn Rail includes Hal Foster's "Fail Better" among their best art books of 2025:
The Brooklyn Rail includes Hal Foster's "Fail Better" among their best art books of 2025:
The Best Art Books of 2025 | The Brooklyn Rail
Our writers have reflected on their favorite art books of 2025, featuring work by Barbara T. Smith, Amanda Ross-Ho, Jeff Mermelstein, and others.
brooklynrail.org
December 26, 2025 at 12:16 PM
"In service of clarity in these seas of complex ideas, Foster’s writing and prose style has remained consistently probing, with provocative inquisitiveness for him and his reader alike."
The Brooklyn Rail includes Hal Foster's "Fail Better" among their best art books of 2025:
The Brooklyn Rail includes Hal Foster's "Fail Better" among their best art books of 2025:
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@jayvanbavel.bsky.social hosts a terrific newsletter, "The Power of Us," and it was an honor to contribute to it, along with @madva.bsky.social and @dryan149.bsky.social.
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"We got mad about the endless either/or debate between the “individual action” versus “systemic change” and decided to try to fix it."
Read our fantastic interview on the new book "Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone can Help Create Social Change": www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/how-anyone...
Read our fantastic interview on the new book "Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone can Help Create Social Change": www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/how-anyone...
How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change
An interview & book giveaway with Michael Brownstein, Alex Madva, and Daniel Kelly about their new book "Somebody should do something"
www.powerofusnewsletter.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
@jayvanbavel.bsky.social hosts a terrific newsletter, "The Power of Us," and it was an honor to contribute to it, along with @madva.bsky.social and @dryan149.bsky.social.
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The legendary manuscript by Austro-American architect Frederick Kiesler (1890–1965), "finally sees the light of day." Domus recommends "Magic Architecture" for your winter reading:
10 books we’ve read and recommend giving—or reading—this winter holidays
Bacteria that invent architecture, ordinary beauty, radical archives, explosive magazines, and anti-machines: a selection of books to navigate contemporary design, slow down our gaze, and understand…
www.domusweb.it
December 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM
The legendary manuscript by Austro-American architect Frederick Kiesler (1890–1965), "finally sees the light of day." Domus recommends "Magic Architecture" for your winter reading:
Our offices will be closed from December 23rd through January 2nd. We wish you all a peaceful holiday season. See you in the new year!
December 24, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Our offices will be closed from December 23rd through January 2nd. We wish you all a peaceful holiday season. See you in the new year!
New this week from the MIT Press. Congratulations authors! 📚👇
December 23, 2025 at 2:16 PM
New this week from the MIT Press. Congratulations authors! 📚👇
An annual tradition: sharing, in no particular order, our 10 most-read Reader articles of the year. Together, they drew more than half a million reads. Huge congrats to all the authors!
December 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
An annual tradition: sharing, in no particular order, our 10 most-read Reader articles of the year. Together, they drew more than half a million reads. Huge congrats to all the authors!
"When I think about or attempt to create hopeful climate futures, I always acknowledge that we must walk, to the extent we can, in the footsteps of those who have known hellish dystopias for a very long time."
A Lit Hub roundtable on our climate futures with contributors to "Climate Imagination":
A Lit Hub roundtable on our climate futures with contributors to "Climate Imagination":
On the Urgency of Climate Change, Creating Hope in a Crisis, and the Limits of Western Storytelling
It’s genuinely difficult to cultivate a hopeful perspective on the climate crisis, and prospects for climate action, in 2025. While I was writing this introductory note, COP30, this year’s United N…
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December 22, 2025 at 8:02 PM
"When I think about or attempt to create hopeful climate futures, I always acknowledge that we must walk, to the extent we can, in the footsteps of those who have known hellish dystopias for a very long time."
A Lit Hub roundtable on our climate futures with contributors to "Climate Imagination":
A Lit Hub roundtable on our climate futures with contributors to "Climate Imagination":
Stuttering affects more than 5% of all preschool-age children and remains chronic in approximately 1% of adults worldwide. #OpenAccess in the Neurobiology of Language, an article on stuttering surveys recent research & priorities for the future: direct.mit.edu/nol/article/... @jneurolang.bsky.social
Stuttering: Our Current Knowledge, Research Opportunities, and Ways to Address Critical Gaps
Abstract. Our understanding of the neurobiological bases of stuttering remains limited, hampering development of effective treatments that are informed by basic science. Stuttering affects more than…
direct.mit.edu
December 22, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Stuttering affects more than 5% of all preschool-age children and remains chronic in approximately 1% of adults worldwide. #OpenAccess in the Neurobiology of Language, an article on stuttering surveys recent research & priorities for the future: direct.mit.edu/nol/article/... @jneurolang.bsky.social
"Clear, simple answers to the most common and vexing questions about climate change that we can take action on right now."
@hannahritchie.bsky.social's "Clearing the Air" is a @nextbigidea.bsky.social must-read!
@hannahritchie.bsky.social's "Clearing the Air" is a @nextbigidea.bsky.social must-read!
The Next Big Idea Club’s March 2026 Must-Read Books
These titles will be included in our longlist of potential titles for Season 30 of the Next Big Idea Club.
nextbigideaclub.com
December 22, 2025 at 12:28 AM
"Clear, simple answers to the most common and vexing questions about climate change that we can take action on right now."
@hannahritchie.bsky.social's "Clearing the Air" is a @nextbigidea.bsky.social must-read!
@hannahritchie.bsky.social's "Clearing the Air" is a @nextbigidea.bsky.social must-read!
@stuhorvath.com's expansive guide is "a really fascinating read about the tabletop universe." "Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground" is one of @joeyfameli.bsky.social's favorite things!
Check out the clip on Adam Savage's Tested:
youtube.com/clip/UgkxlIt... @tested.com @asavage.bsky.social
Check out the clip on Adam Savage's Tested:
youtube.com/clip/UgkxlIt... @tested.com @asavage.bsky.social
December 21, 2025 at 4:05 PM
@stuhorvath.com's expansive guide is "a really fascinating read about the tabletop universe." "Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground" is one of @joeyfameli.bsky.social's favorite things!
Check out the clip on Adam Savage's Tested:
youtube.com/clip/UgkxlIt... @tested.com @asavage.bsky.social
Check out the clip on Adam Savage's Tested:
youtube.com/clip/UgkxlIt... @tested.com @asavage.bsky.social
"A wonderfully readable look at the interface between book history & computer history." — @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social
In "README," historian @patrickmccray.bsky.socials uses the oldest literary technology—books—to explain how computers became popular. Available now: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348...
In "README," historian @patrickmccray.bsky.socials uses the oldest literary technology—books—to explain how computers became popular. Available now: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348...
December 20, 2025 at 10:40 PM
"A wonderfully readable look at the interface between book history & computer history." — @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social
In "README," historian @patrickmccray.bsky.socials uses the oldest literary technology—books—to explain how computers became popular. Available now: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348...
In "README," historian @patrickmccray.bsky.socials uses the oldest literary technology—books—to explain how computers became popular. Available now: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348...
"Brouws photographs the vestiges of North America’s steam age ... invit[ing] reflection on what we build, what we discard, and how memory lingers in the physical world."
"Silent Monoliths" is @fivebooks.com arts & architecture editor Romas Viesulas' most anticipated book of early 2026:
"Silent Monoliths" is @fivebooks.com arts & architecture editor Romas Viesulas' most anticipated book of early 2026:
Beautiful Books of 2025
A few of the most inspiring and beautiful books of 2025 for your shelf, as chosen by our art and architecture editor.
fivebooks.com
December 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
"Brouws photographs the vestiges of North America’s steam age ... invit[ing] reflection on what we build, what we discard, and how memory lingers in the physical world."
"Silent Monoliths" is @fivebooks.com arts & architecture editor Romas Viesulas' most anticipated book of early 2026:
"Silent Monoliths" is @fivebooks.com arts & architecture editor Romas Viesulas' most anticipated book of early 2026:
"Strange Attractor gives us a portrait of the man as madcap autodidact, voraciously well read in ethnobotanical lore, hermetic occultism, C.G. Jung ... and, not least, philosophy."
@washingtonpost.com reviews Graham St John's new biography of Terence McKenna: www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
@washingtonpost.com reviews Graham St John's new biography of Terence McKenna: www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
December 19, 2025 at 8:28 PM
"Strange Attractor gives us a portrait of the man as madcap autodidact, voraciously well read in ethnobotanical lore, hermetic occultism, C.G. Jung ... and, not least, philosophy."
@washingtonpost.com reviews Graham St John's new biography of Terence McKenna: www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
@washingtonpost.com reviews Graham St John's new biography of Terence McKenna: www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
"Energizing and brilliant."
@newrepublic.com reviews "Ruth Asawa and the Artist-Mother at Midcentury":
@newrepublic.com reviews "Ruth Asawa and the Artist-Mother at Midcentury":
Ruth Asawa Connected Everything
A remarkable retrospective shows how Asawa’s art practice emerged from the broken rhythms of daily life, overlapping with family and with community.
newrepublic.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:16 PM
"Energizing and brilliant."
@newrepublic.com reviews "Ruth Asawa and the Artist-Mother at Midcentury":
@newrepublic.com reviews "Ruth Asawa and the Artist-Mother at Midcentury":
"Through a mixture of luck, judgment and calculation, Iofan stayed alive while many of his friends and colleagues did not."
Stalin’s Architect: The Remarkable Life of Boris Iofan
Iofan’s career is a precise reflection of all the compromises that architects must make with power.
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
December 19, 2025 at 2:15 AM
"Through a mixture of luck, judgment and calculation, Iofan stayed alive while many of his friends and colleagues did not."
From the hidden engineering of birds to the incredible history of xenotransplantation, our Spring catalog features cutting-edge, imaginative books on science, technology, design, culture, and more.
Browse our catalog online, or download directly to your device: mitpress.mit.edu/catalogs/
Browse our catalog online, or download directly to your device: mitpress.mit.edu/catalogs/
December 18, 2025 at 11:05 PM
From the hidden engineering of birds to the incredible history of xenotransplantation, our Spring catalog features cutting-edge, imaginative books on science, technology, design, culture, and more.
Browse our catalog online, or download directly to your device: mitpress.mit.edu/catalogs/
Browse our catalog online, or download directly to your device: mitpress.mit.edu/catalogs/
For as little as $29, companies like 23andMe promise to tell your genetic origin story. But biologist Carles Lalueza-Fox warns that genetic claims to "Viking” or “Yamnaya” roots are “neither universal nor objective,” and ancestry is just one piece of a bigger puzzle:
Genetic Ancestry Doesn’t Tell Your Whole Story
If you’re looking for your genetic origin story, ancestry tests will only take you so far.
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
December 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
For as little as $29, companies like 23andMe promise to tell your genetic origin story. But biologist Carles Lalueza-Fox warns that genetic claims to "Viking” or “Yamnaya” roots are “neither universal nor objective,” and ancestry is just one piece of a bigger puzzle:
"In lucid prose & illuminated by Melinda Josie’s watercolours, the book shows how dreams can surprise us or redirect our attention to realities we otherwise ignore."
Heidi Rennert reviews "An Alphabet for Dreamers," a charming new grammar for dreams by Sharon Sliwinski: @reviewcanada.bsky.social
Heidi Rennert reviews "An Alphabet for Dreamers," a charming new grammar for dreams by Sharon Sliwinski: @reviewcanada.bsky.social
Bookworm, no. 125
Heidi Rennert reviews Sharon Sliwinski’s “An Alphabet for Dreamers.” Andrew Pudlak on Carissa Halton’s “Revolution Songs.” A poem from Katherena Vermette’s “Procession.” Inside the December issue.
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December 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
"In lucid prose & illuminated by Melinda Josie’s watercolours, the book shows how dreams can surprise us or redirect our attention to realities we otherwise ignore."
Heidi Rennert reviews "An Alphabet for Dreamers," a charming new grammar for dreams by Sharon Sliwinski: @reviewcanada.bsky.social
Heidi Rennert reviews "An Alphabet for Dreamers," a charming new grammar for dreams by Sharon Sliwinski: @reviewcanada.bsky.social
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It‘s published 🎉 I‘m very excited to share that my book „The Social Codes of Tech Workers“ is now out with @mitpress.bsky.social
You can find it in bookstores and online. Thanks to everyone who supported me on the journey! See comments section for link to the first chapter.
You can find it in bookstores and online. Thanks to everyone who supported me on the journey! See comments section for link to the first chapter.
December 17, 2025 at 12:22 PM
It‘s published 🎉 I‘m very excited to share that my book „The Social Codes of Tech Workers“ is now out with @mitpress.bsky.social
You can find it in bookstores and online. Thanks to everyone who supported me on the journey! See comments section for link to the first chapter.
You can find it in bookstores and online. Thanks to everyone who supported me on the journey! See comments section for link to the first chapter.
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"Wait...That's what deconstruction is all about?"
Deconstruction @mitpress.bsky.social Essential Knowledge Series. mitpress.mit.edu/9780262542470/
Deconstruction @mitpress.bsky.social Essential Knowledge Series. mitpress.mit.edu/9780262542470/
December 17, 2025 at 12:56 PM
"Wait...That's what deconstruction is all about?"
Deconstruction @mitpress.bsky.social Essential Knowledge Series. mitpress.mit.edu/9780262542470/
Deconstruction @mitpress.bsky.social Essential Knowledge Series. mitpress.mit.edu/9780262542470/
Science lovers can satisfy their curiosity with @nextbigidea.bsky.social's list of the 12 Best Science Books of 2025, including James Riordon's fascinating story of gravity, "Crush":
12 Best Science Books of 2025
These 12 science books can improve how you move through the world and understand our place in it.
nextbigideaclub.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Science lovers can satisfy their curiosity with @nextbigidea.bsky.social's list of the 12 Best Science Books of 2025, including James Riordon's fascinating story of gravity, "Crush":
Comedy gold starting right here at 28:55, a few minutes before "Deconstruction" makes an appearance. We could all use a laugh: youtu.be/IZvClu34niM?...
December 17, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Comedy gold starting right here at 28:55, a few minutes before "Deconstruction" makes an appearance. We could all use a laugh: youtu.be/IZvClu34niM?...
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"In many respects, the book is inspiring. The examples show how some ordinary people can become change agents without, metaphorically, having to climb Mount Everest."
Noel Castree reviews "Somebody Should Do Something" for @us.theconversation.com:
Noel Castree reviews "Somebody Should Do Something" for @us.theconversation.com:
Can you be the change you’d like to see? Three US philosophers aim to offer hope
Can one person change the world? At a time of pessimism and populism, a new book suggests how we can achieve social change.
theconversation.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:28 PM
"In many respects, the book is inspiring. The examples show how some ordinary people can become change agents without, metaphorically, having to climb Mount Everest."
Noel Castree reviews "Somebody Should Do Something" for @us.theconversation.com:
Noel Castree reviews "Somebody Should Do Something" for @us.theconversation.com: