Obliquity

The most interesting, useful, and liberating book of advice this year, economist John Kay's argument for the efficacy of indirection is both intuitive and practical, supported with examples from business, politics, sports, parenting, and literature. The best path to both goals and satisfaction, says Kay persuasively, is most surely an indirect one.

May 25: On this day in 1938 Raymond Carver was born. Carver's poem "Luck," about a nine-year-old who wakes to an empty house and the leftovers of his parents' party, is all too autobiographical: "What luck, I thought. / Years later,…

Angry robots! Aren't they all? Well, not the line of fine science fiction and fantasy books that comes to readers under the rubric Angry Robot. In fact, their offerings…

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