Reading Alice Gregory’s fascinating New Yorker piece about the “strange afterlife of Hilma af Klint” brought me back to seeing the remarkable show of her work at the Guggenheim in 2018 (photo from our trip abov... https://stephenschenkenberg.com/2025/11/29/reading-alice-gregorys-fascinating-new.html

Such rich writing from Richard Mabey in his book “The Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination”:

"Everywhere I have travelled plants have surprised me by their dogged loyalty to ... https://stephenschenkenberg.com/2025/11/26/such-rich-writing-from-richard.html

Dan Wang, sharply introducing the thesis to his new book Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer a Perfect Future:

"The best hedge, I know against tightening intentions between the two superpowers is mutual curiosity. ... https://stephenschenkenberg.com/2025/11/25/dan-wang-sharply-introducing-the.html

Yesterday via Kottke, I learned that MIchael Sippey had built a new project: 3books, a nicely organized collection of all the books that Ezra Klein’s guests recommend at the end of his show. Great idea, well-executed. ... https://stephenschenkenberg.com/2025/09/04/yesterday-via-kottke-i-learned.html

Chef’s-kiss sentence from Orlando Whitfield’s “All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art”:

Spine blurb, 1856. Sneakily snagged from a private letter Emerson sent Whitman. (From “The Look of the Book,” Mendelsund and Alworth)