Yanis Varoufakis looks at the way the advent of internet businesses have changed the economy – and comes to a surprising and polemic conclusion that capitalism is dead. His book is recommended reading for anyone who thinks the global economy has become a bit weird lately.
At its release in 1985, this was praised as the ultimate biography of the infamous German terror organization, Rote Armee Fraktion. And to this day, I can’t imagine a more perfect telling of this traumatic story.
Will Self’s novel “Great Apes” is both deeply unsettling and darkly hilarious – an uncomfortably precise satire on the nature of civilisation.
Night after night, a man stands by his elevator with a suitcase, waiting for the secret police to take him away and punish him for his crimes.The man is the composer Dmitri Shostakovich, the setting is Stalin’s Soviet Union, and the crime is his music.
While not a definitive biography, Sylvie Simmons’ book works as a short and entertaining introduction to the life and work of a truly unique artist.
Zen teacher and writer Brad Warner tells a story about the origins of this book. When Warner was visiting Montreal to deliver a talk on Zen, a rather eccentric member of the audience asked him: “Are Buddhists allowed to jack …
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