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A handwritten note from the Octavia E. Butler archive with reminders for herself. "Tell stories Filled with Facts. Make People Touch and Taste and KNOW. Make People FEEL! FEEL! Feel!"
A man carries a basket on his head while walking atop a gigantic pile of trash in Indonesia that stretches meters high and as far as the eye can see.
A woman carries a large piece of metal that's been pulled out of a decommissioned ship in a grey yard in Turkey.
A small blue boat full of plastic bottles sits in a river that is totally covered in floating garbage—no water is visible.
A young Ghanaian man sifts through electronic waste in the Agbogbloshie dump in Accra, Ghana
Cover of Red Memory by Tania Branigan, featuring a porcelain figurine of four Mao-era characters
Cover of The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn-of-the-Century America by David Baron
A typographical poster saying "THE APPROACH - THWART! UPEND! SABOTAGE! SURVIVE!" on a glowing orange and white background
Photo of a page in Karen Hao's book describing a visit to an "urban forest" built by Google in Chile to offset its data center there, which turns out to be a few straggly trees in a remote area -- not what Google claims.
Author Henry Grabar standing at a lectern wearing a suit.
The cover of Adam Higginbotham's book CHALLENGER: "A true story of heroism and disaster on the edge of space"
The cover of Adam Higginbotham's book CHALLENGER on a black and white tiled background
The hidden cover of CUR010, Curious Reading Club's book of the month for February 2025, on a black and white tiled background.
Screenshot of a segment of text reading "these kinds of laws create a state of psychological distress in the chosen victims, whether it's black people or trans people or immigrants. And that's the goal of psychological war: to make a particularly adversary scared, confused, unable to speak out publicly about their situation unless they want to risk arrest or risk lynching or risk being beaten."
A screenshot of the homepage of the Curious Reading Club newsletter, featuring recent stories and interviews
Four books with largely monochrome colors splayed across a yellow seat, posing for a photo like your French girls. Crime & Punishment, Exhalation, The Imaginative Argument and Beowulf lay before you.
Three covers of books chosen recently by Curious Reading Club: On Tyranny, A Map of Future Ruins and Another Word For Love.
Screenshot of text from a New Yorker article reads "Alec Baldwin, who stars in '30 Rock,' the NBC sitcom that has revived his career and done nothing to lift his spirits, has the unbending, straight-armed gait of someone trying to prevent clothes from rubbing against sunburned skin. He is fifty years old, divorced, and lives alone in an old white farmhouse in the Hamptons and an apartment on Central Park West—feeling thwarted, if not quite persecuted."
Highlighted section of text from the linked post saying “we start with the camera zoomed way out, almost as if we are looking down from space at a map of the US and its complicated borders.”
The first page of the hardcover edition of Rebecca Nagle's BY THE FIRE WE CARRY. It begins "The Indian Nation Turnpike is a four-lane highway cutting north to south through the bottom right corner of Oklahoma."
Screen capture of video chat between author Rebecca Nagle, who has one earphone in as she talks into the microphone, and interviewer Bobbie Johnson, who appears to have gigantic hands.