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Rachel Sherman’s Uneasy Street is a vital look at how the rich see themselves. Sherman interviewed 50 wealthy New Yorkers — many of whom deny being rich in the first place, or prefer euphemisms like “comfortable” or “ultra-high net worth individual” — and found that many of them are wracked with anxiety.

The reason to read The Three-Body Problem isn’t that it’s a beautiful translation of one of the most popular science fiction books in China. It isn’t that President Obama and Mark Zuckerberg count it among their favorites. It isn’t even that the mind-boggling story revolves around the classic “three-body problem” in orbital mechanics, which is useful for impressing your uncle over Christmas dinner.

Recently, for example, talk has focused on getting to Mars, where NASA hopes to send astronauts and Musk dreams of building a new civilization. Planning also continues for the next generation of telescopes, which will help us see back to the dawn of time and possibly spot signs of life elsewhere in the galaxy.

A similar problem arises with side sewn binding, in which the pages are invisibly stitched along the spine to create a curved gutter.  The outer pages sit flatter than those at the centre of the book where the gutter is deeper.

In most cases the number of images per page should relate to the page size and the quality of the image. Eye-catching images deserve single-page spreads, in which the picture covers the entire page.

The mission of The Night Library is to “rewild knowledge acquisition,” and with that in mind I’ve set up various art installations–and produced accompanying ‘zines and poetic catalogs–utilizing the collection and giving people a space in which to be alone and distraction-free with the reading material. The hope is that they take the chance to contemplate that, while there is obvious censorship in totalitarian regimes, we in the so-called free world also need to contend with the self-editing and self-policing that comes with living so much of our lives on the internet. [Some of my work can be explored via The Night Library website.]

Entrepreneur magazine’s August issue encourages startup founders to "get packing" — and head to Baltimore.

Hochschild is a lecturer at the Graduate School of Journalism at The University of California at Berkeley and the author of nine books, including To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918, which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He wrote about the First World War in last week’s New Yorker and the Guardian.

Your local library is also paying more for ebooks since agency pricing was implemented. Very early on, publishers realized that e-books do not have as much legal protections as physical books do, because they are considered a service and not a product. This has resulted in the e-book cost increasing over  800% and limits on the number of checkouts being imposed.

Over the past decade or so, the scientific community has reengaged with psychedelic substances, and done so to extraordinary effect: The studies Pollan describes in this discussion are remarkable, but so too are the insights into how our minds work, the ways in which they become overly ordered and efficient as we age, and the power that a dedicated dose of disorder can hold.

Wimpfheimer takes them through the development of the Talmud — specifically, the Babylonian Talmud — in the first through eighth centuries CE.

“We have a digital property, we have a digital world,” Sifton says. “But we also have a physical one, and [we thought] it would be kind of neat to have an NYT cooking book… to cook out of something other your phone, or your tablet, or your laptop.”