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The Feeling of What Happens, Damasio (1999)
One difficulty in reviewing popular science is separating the power of the ideas from the communicative skill of the work. Antonio Damasio is among the most influential of…
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Bluets, Nelson (2009)
Bluets, a collection of prose poems ostensibly about being in love with the color blue, is very, very brave. The deepest bravery has to do with vulnerability. I…
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The Outrun (2024)
Rabeh’s take: Granite cliffs demarcate land and sea. We are told this is a border. Where life as we know it ends, and another, foreign and hidden, begins.…
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Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Wilco (2002)
Every listener has their biases. I’ve just never really quite grasped 21st-century indie rock, whatever that label means. I’ve been trying and mostly failing to appreciate Arcade Fire,…
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Rising Down, The Roots (2008)
There are no label-friendly singles on this album, no Do You Want More?-style heady jazz, none of the late 90s neo-soul vibe. The mood of Roots albums had…
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Amassakoul, Tinariwen (2004)
These dudes are the real deal. The members of Tinariwen met and learned to play music in refugee camps. Lead vocalist Ibrahim Ag Alhabib’s first guitar was made…
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