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Poems

• Neanderthal Dig — Don McKay
• A Pity, We Were Such a Good Invention — Yehuda Amichai
• Self-Portrait at 28 — David Berman
• It Is Later Than You Think — Robert W. Service
• Separation — W. S. Merwin
• In the Neolithic Age — Rudyard Kipling
• War of the Foxes — Richard Siken
• Averno — Louise Glück
• The Glass Essay — Anne Carson
• Bluets — Maggie Nelson

Short Stories

• Good Old Neon — David Foster Wallace
• Inconstant Moon — Larry Niven
• Face Value — Karen Joy Fowler
• Snow — John Crowley
• It Looks Like You’re Trying To Take Over The World — Gwern

Essays

• This Is Water — David Foster Wallace
• Meditations On Moloch — Scott Alexander
• Why I Do Not Attend Case Conferences — Paul Meehl

Papers & Ideas

• Cybernetic Big Five Theory — Colin DeYoung
• On the Psychology of Extremism — Kruglanski et al.
• Groups in Mind — Tooby & Cosmides
• AI as Governance — Henry Farrell
• More Is Different — P. W. Anderson
• Behavioural Individuality in Clonal Fish — Bierbach et al.
• The SAPA Personality Inventory — David Condon
• Beyond Playing 20 Questions with Nature — Almaatouq et al.

Fiction

• Invisible Cities — Italo Calvino
• Ficciones — Jorge Luis Borges
• Sátántangó — László Krasznahorkai
• Your Name Here — Helen DeWitt & Ilya Gridneff
• Destination: Void — Frank Herbert
• Neuromancer — William Gibson
• Blindsight — Peter Watts
• The Dispossessed — Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Word for World Is Forest — Ursula K. Le Guin
• Klara and the Sun — Kazuo Ishiguro
• A Confederacy of Dunces — John Kennedy Toole
• The Sun Also Rises — Ernest Hemingway

Nonfiction

• God, Human, Animal, Machine — Meghan O’Gieblyn
• Bad Beliefs — Neil Levy
• Metazoa — Peter Godfrey-Smith
• Living with the Gods — Neil MacGregor
• Letters to a Young Scientist — E.O. Wilson
• High Weirdness — Erik Davis
• The Year of Magical Thinking — Joan Didion

Ephemera

• The Mind in the Wheel — Slime Mold Time Mold

Last updated June 2026.