Speaking of Matter: Review of Q.E.D.
Feynman, Richard P, Q.E.D.: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter, Princeton, 1985 I loved many things about this book, but above all the moments when Feynman let own joy, unabashed wonder at the...
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Borges on Writing [book review]
Like many other Anglophone readers, I assumed for a long time that Borges wrote primarily fiction, which meant that I had been overlooking roughly half of his writing. This book of essays (Jorge Luis Borges...
What is Real? The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics: Book Review
Adam Becker, What is Real? The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics, London: John Murray, 2018. This book is, at heart, a history of one literally earth-shaking event in the history of...
Books and Islands: Book Review
I was born and raised in Minnesota, much of which lies in Ojibwe country. For years, however, I assumed that I should study my own heritage, namely German, and so I grew up in...