Excited to say that our pick of the month for June is @adambecker.bsky.social's storming MORE, EVERYTHING, FOREVER. From AI apocalypse to immortality, if you've ever wondered what strange beliefs the Silicon Valley really hold... this is the book for you. newsletter.readcurious.xyz/p/cu026-anno...

Our book of the month for May is “Feed the People!” by Gabriel N Rosenberg and @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social — a provocative argument in favor of mass food production and the pleasures of “democratic hedonism” Read more: newsletter.readcurious.xyz/p/cur025-ann...

What made “Waste Wars” our book of the month for April? It’s a skillful expose of the myths at the center of the rubbish and recycling industry… revealing how this is a big money operation that perverts our relationship with trash. newsletter.readcurious.xyz/p/waste-wars...

One of the most impressive things about @alexclapp.bsky.social's "Waste Wars" is his journey to document the afterlife of our garbage. Here are some of the locations he visits in our April book of the month. Get ready, it's genuinely shocking. newsletter.readcurious.xyz/p/photo-essa...

Our book of the month for April is the remarkable, globetrotting “Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash” by Alexander Clapp - @alexclapp.bsky.social - an eye-opening dive into what really happens to the stuff you throw into the garbage and recycling. newsletter.readcurious.xyz/p/cur024-was...

I'll be talking about whistleblowing and medical research this Tuesday at the University of Pennsylvania medicalethicshealthpolicy.med.upenn.edu/master-of-bi...

A fascinating read by friend & former colleague @laurenmarkham.bsky.social about Americans seeking secondary citizenships for their kids. Curious about whether there’s a comparable move among Asian-Americans. Seeking a Second Passport at @newyorker.com

Want some more good muckraking reads? We got them right here! newsletter.readcurious.xyz/p/great-muck...

What makes Gardiner Harris’s NO MORE TEARS so damnably good? Well, for a start it’s an excellent piece of muckraking about the bad behavior of Johnson & Johnson. But there are more specific reasons it stands out: newsletter.readcurious.xyz/p/the-power-...

Thrilled to share that I am joining NDN Collective’s Radical Imagination Artist cohort for the year! So humbled and honored to be part of such an inspiring group of Native creatives. Read about the cohort here

Our book of the month for March is "No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson" by Gardiner Harris, a devastating exposé of one of America's most trusted companies. Become a member now and get your copy! newsletter.readcurious.xyz/p/cur023-no-...

Bay Area! 3/12! Me and the legendary Cindy Cohn! Don't miss this amazing opportunity to hear from a veteran of the privacy wars ... and learn new ways to keep yourself safe from the prying eyes of government.

If you read By The Fire We Carry, you learned a little bit about the amazing person Rosemary McCombs Maxey. She just published a novel! Papa’s Pills is a journey into the lives of people living on the Muscogee reservation in the 1990s written by a Muscogee first language speaker.

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Finalist for the audiobook award!🥈(And an Olympic figure skater in my heart.) The audiobook for *What If We Get It Right?* features 20 interviews with delightful climate experts. And me, reading to you in my radio voice. 🎙️ Listen wherever you listen!

Amazing to chat with @craigmod.com about his book Things Become Other Things, his friends, his mentors, the Japanese language, being an old man whisperer, AI, purpose... oh, all the stuff! newsletter.readcurious.xyz/p/craig-mod-...

Our book of the month for February is "Things Become Other Things: A Walking Memoir" by @craigmod.com—a superb, closely observed meditation on life, tradition, friendship and loss while hiking the ancient pilgrim trails of Japan's remote Kii peninsula. newsletter.readcurious.xyz/p/cur022-cra...

I was delighted to chat with the wonderful Bobbie Johnson of @readcurious.xyz about my years following Alzheimer’s disease in Colombia. Bobbie even took the trouble to transcribe our expansive conversation, bless his ❤️. It’s worth a skim I promise.

We spoke to "Valley of Forgetting" author @jennieerinsmith.bsky.social about a whole lot of stuff: her book, cultivating sources, medical ethics, the influence of big money on medical research, and the latest Alzheimer’s developments. And George Orwell! newsletter.readcurious.xyz/p/interview-...

“Valley of Forgetting” succeeds because it does some things that aren’t typical in science books: newsletter.readcurious.xyz/p/close-read...

Our book of the month for January is "Valley of Forgetting: Alzheimer's Families And The Search For A Cure" by Jennie Erin Smith (@jennieerinsmith.bsky.social) It's a poignant and powerful look at the folks suffering at the hands of this awful disease, and at the scientists seeking a way out.

The Gilded Age was looking offworld for the answers to its very real problems. "People really wanted the Martians to exist because they might save us," says @dhbaron.bsky.social, author of The Martians, our December book of the month. Sound familiar? newsletter.readcurious.xyz/p/david-baro...

Our book of the month for December is @dhbaron.bsky.social's THE MARTIANS, a fun, readable history of a wild period in American history when influential people were obsessed with the impending arrival of an alien race. Read more and sign up now: newsletter.readcurious.xyz/p/announceme...

What makes "Red Memory", our pick of the month for November, tick? It's an unflinching set of portraits of people dealing with what happened during China's brutal, baffling Cultural Revolution—and here are five things that we appreciated about it: newsletter.readcurious.xyz/p/red-memory...

Our book pick for November is Red Memory by @taniabranigan.bsky.social, a look at what happened during China's Cultural Revolution through the eyes of people who lived it. It's full of powerful, compelling and often harrowing interviews and deep analysis. newsletter.readcurious.xyz/p/cur019-ann...

We’ve spoken to so many great authors in the last 18 months. Want to see what they had to say? newsletter.readcurious.xyz/p/curious-au...

Dice are a beautiful example of how games connect us through time. "Dice were a Roman obsession. This was a culture intimately acquainted with their heft and bounce, the hollow, toothy rattle of the dice box and the clatter of knucklebones on marble." newsletter.readcurious.xyz/p/the-weird-...

Our October book of the month is "Across the Board: How Games Make Us Human" by @timclare.bsky.social — a fascinating, charming history of games and why they matter. Join our club now to get brilliant hand-picked non-fiction every month! newsletter.readcurious.xyz/p/cur018-acr...

"The very era that this book kind of covers is coming to an end... that sense of what American power looks like in Asia. I wish it was a happier end. " A chat with The Pacific Circuit's @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social, about where we are and how we got here. newsletter.readcurious.xyz/p/the-wheel-...

Our latest book of the month is a real humdinger: "The Pacific Circuit" by @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social — a book focused on a very specific place and people that also reveals truths about everything and everywhere at the same time. newsletter.readcurious.xyz/p/cur017-the... Sign up to get a copy!

📣 Our book of the month for August is... STRATA: STORIES FROM DEEP TIME by @laurapoppick.bsky.social We loved this detailed, deliberate overview of geoscience—and its mixture of lyrical prose and detailed profiles of researchers and the things they study. newsletter.readcurious.xyz/p/announcing...

📢 Our pick of the month for July is "The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog": @biologycarly.bsky.social's fun new book showing how silly science can lead to serious discoveries. Publishers Weekly called it "pop science at its finest" and they're right! newsletter.readcurious.xyz/p/cur015-sal...

Our interview with "Empire of AI" author @karenhao.bsky.social covered everything from the inception of artificial intelligence to OpenAI's voracious business to global journalism and Silicon Valley's "politics of exit". Read more in our newsletter: newsletter.readcurious.xyz/p/at-the-mom...

The great @laurenmarkham.bsky.social is almost there with her Kickstarter for a new "guerrilla newspaper" on "how to approach—thwart, upend, survive—autocracy" More in our weekly update: newsletter.readcurious.xyz/p/curious-ne...

Four things we loved about @karenhao.bsky.social's EMPIRE OF AI, our book of the month for June. newsletter.readcurious.xyz/p/close-read...

Our book of the month for June is @karenhao.bsky.social's astonishing look at the hottest company in tech: "Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI" It's a detailed, critical dive into what AI is, where it comes from, and what it costs. newsletter.readcurious.xyz/p/cur014-kar...

Our book of the month for May is the fascinating ON MUSCLE by @bonnietsui.bsky.social. It's a perfect blend of science and memoir, social history and technical detail, with some rivetingly beautiful personal stories. Find out more and sign up here: newsletter.readcurious.xyz/p/bonnie-tsu...

Ok, here’s a feelgood story given the state of everything else Residents of one Michigan town form a human chain to move a bookstore’s stock to its new location: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"I'm free. I'm free forever!" this was the voice memo I woke up to the other day from Hassan, one of the Moria 6, accused and convicted with zero credible evidence for burning down the Moria refugee camp in Greece. www.bbc.com/news/article...

🧵🐺🧬 An important point is getting lost in the discussion abt today's "deextinction" news: Colossal is not just claiming to have created something akin to a dire wolf. They claim they've made new/unpublished genetic discoveries that would rewrite our understanding of dire wolf evolution & anatomy 🧪

What Goodreads alternatives are people using? What do you recommend? We've tried a few but none of them really stuck, so still mainly tracking reading lists in the good old notes app.

Announcing our April book of the month - PAVED PARADISE by @henrygrabar.bsky.social, an anger-inducing, funny and very smart look at our relationships with cars and specifically where and how we store them. It's easy to sign up and get your copy! newsletter.readcurious.xyz/p/announcing...

This week's newsletter is out, featuring highlights from our live conversation with @ayanaeliza.bsky.social. It was a fun chat: she talks about how her book What If We Get It Right? came together, what surprised her about it and what it doesn't cover. newsletter.readcurious.xyz/p/trying-not...

This week's newsletter is out, featuring a decades-old beef between Ansel Adams and Henri Cartier-Bresson that should give you some perspective. newsletter.readcurious.xyz/p/ansel-adam...

Great book, we highlighted it for club members last September. Copies still available at readcurious.xyz … You don’t *have* to join to get back list titles, but you won’t regret it if you do.

Spring is almost here & the extended Becoming Earth tour continues! So excited to team up with @ericajberry.bsky.social & Lee van der Voo in Portland; @zoeschlanger.bsky.social & more in Tucson; and @edyong209.bsky.social in San Francisco. More details + links on my website www.ferrisjabr.com/events

The attempted mugging of a visiting president was about the world war that Musk, Trump, and Vance have chosen. If we attend to what Vance and Trump said yesterday, we can work our way to the unreason of American policy, and to the chaos that will follow. snyder.substack.com/p/the-war-tr...

ANNOUNCEMENT: It's time for our book of the month for March, and it's a doozy: the inspiring and perspective-shifting WHAT IF WE GET IT RIGHT? by @ayanaeliza.bsky.social -- a book about imagining a different climate future and working towards it. newsletter.readcurious.xyz/p/cur011-wha...

Writing this week’s newsletter with a trio of book recommendations—ones we enjoyed that didn’t quite make the cut for our monthly pick. Any come to mind? Sign up for our weekly emails: newsletter.readcurious.xyz