Albert Camus has long been misunderstood, but a new translation of his complete notebooks offers a corrective. The Complete Notebooks by Albert Camus. Translated by Ryan Bloom. University of Chicago Press, 2026. 712 pages.Buy on Bookshop.org Did you know LARB … Read more
John Gruber has some choice words for Merrick Garland and crew, but this paragraph stood out as uniquely interesting to me: Apple Pay through Wallet obfuscates your actual credit card numbers, which retailers infamously use to track customers. It’s far … Read more
I generally understand every thing I read, all but what’s Latin, and that I skip. —‘T.G.,’ The Female Tatler, No. 81, January 9–11, 1710 I am very sensible, madam, of the absurdity to speak Latin in a Ladies presence, but … Read more
Few people are as famous for being wrong as Thomas Robert Malthus, the English cleric and early student of population growth. Malthus thought that while population could grow exponentially, food production could grow only linearly. Therefore population growth would always … Read more