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Convenience Store Woman (Japanese: コンビニ人間, Hepburn: Konbini Ningen) is a 2016 novel by Japanese author …
A quick read. Engaging, but not that enjoyable for me. No sooner had it set up some conflict, it abandons it, and the story ends. As someone who has frequented Japanese convenience stores, it was most enjoyable as a portrait of those places.
Sleep is one of the most important but least understood aspects of our life, wellness, and longevity. Until very recently, …
With the imagery of a poet and the reflection of a philosopher, David Whyte turns his attention to 52 ordinary …
Convenience Store Woman (Japanese: コンビニ人間, Hepburn: Konbini Ningen) is a 2016 novel by Japanese author Sayaka Murata. It captures the …
Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in …
An oft-celebrated urban planning book, it is worthy of its reputation. It makes a good philosophical partner to Confessions of a Recovering Engineer, which I read first.
What it means to be rational, the habits of mind that exhibit (and inhibit) rationality, and why wide-spread rationality is …
A quick read. As someone with no connection at all to filmmaking, it was interesting to get a window into this less-visible part of the discipline.
In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey toward a better future.
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