What a great lede: "Bret Easton Ellis first saw the Paul Schrader film American Gigolo in February 1980, the month it opened, when he was fifteen years old. He has since seen it more than thirty-five times. “Looking back,” he wrote in the essay collection White (2019), “the impact American Gigolo had on me is impossible to tally.” .... #NYBooks #bretEastonEllis #bookstodon

“If Silent Spring is about rupture, then the overarching project of Carson’s sea writing was to achieve a feat of connection—these are profoundly holistic books, tracing the bonds between natural forces and organisms.”
Rebecca Giggs writes of Rachel Carson’s ocean books for @nybooks. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/12/22/the-sea-trilogy-rachel-carson/ Illustration by Andrea Ventura #rachelcarson #nybooks

Do #markets generate #empathy? Yes for #AdamSmith, not quite so for John Maynard #Keynes, and why. Two excellent pieces from Corey Robin at #nybooks

Re: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/12/08/empathy-the-economy-being-me-being-you-adam-smith/

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/12/22/the-trouble-with-money-john-maynard-keynes/

Do #markets generate #empathy? Yes for #AdamSmith, not quite so for John Maynard #Keynes, and why. Two excellent pieces from Corey Robin at #nybooks

Re: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/12/08/empathy-the-economy-being-me-being-you-adam-smith/

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/12/22/the-trouble-with-money-john-maynard-keynes/