Jack Rusher on Nostr: I’m really missing mid-century highbrow anglophone culture these days. All the well ...
I’m really missing mid-century highbrow anglophone culture these days. All the well reviewed recent nonfiction I try feels written for children born with a goldfish’s attention span and no memory.
Market forces seem to have made the publication of books like Pauling’s General Chemistry, Feynman’s The Character of Physical Law, or One Two Three... Infinity by Gamow no longer possible. ☹️
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