Word of Mouth: Deep Summer Edition

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Surf dogs at Imperial Beach. Mike’s Birds from Riverside, CA, US. 2019. Wikimedia Commons.

ESCAPE

Non-Fiction: A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II — Sonia Purnell

Fiction: The Book of the Unknown: Tales of the Thirty-Six — Jonathon Keats

Fiction: Mercy — Joan Silber

Music: Tailspin — Eleni Mandell

TV: Colin From Accounts — Patrick Brammall, Harriet Dyer

ENGAGE:

Podcast: Bad History Will Kill America — Amicus. Dahlia Lithwick, Mark Joseph Stern, Sam Bagenstos and Jed Shugerman discuss the final cases of the Supreme Court term, involving birthright citizenship and independent federal agencies.

Podcast: F@#$ the AI Overlords: Cory Doctorow’s Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI — On the Media.

Essay: The Science That Turned Lizard Venom into GLP-1s Is Under Attack — Jeff Coller on the Trump Administration’s all-out assault on science funding.

Podcast: Donald Trump Can’t Quit the 2020 Election — The New Yorker Roundtable.

Opinion: The Incoherence of Blaming Mamdani for Anti-Jewish Violence — Peter Beinart.

Essay: When Following the Rules Leads to Disaster — Graeme Wood on the migrant disaster in Ceuta.

April Word of Mouth

Coffins of Khnum-Nakht and Nakht-Ankh, photo courtesy of the Manchester Museum

DNA: 4,000-year-old Egyptian mummies were thought to be brothers. Genetics tells a different story — Ben Guarino, Washington Post

Non-Fiction: The Bridge to Brilliance: How One Woman and One Community Are Inspiring the World — Nadia Lopez and Rebecca Paley

Fiction: Improvement Joan Silber

Productivity: The 12-Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks Than Others Do in 12 Months — Brian Moran

Music: Blue Soul — Blue Mitchell Sextet

TV: Jessica Jones — Melissa Rosenberg

Podcast: The Good Fight — Yascha Mounck

Ancient Inspiration: “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”

Meditations, 8.47 — Marcus Aurelius