If you, like me, are digging ESPN’s The Last Dance, you may be interested to know that the network is planning to release three more documentaries.
“Here’s a thought,” writes David Mason. “Literary criticism ought to entertain as well as illuminate.”
A couple of New Yorker pieces of note: Adam Kirsch on Søren Kierkegaard, and, from the same issue, Anthony Gottlieb on Frank Ramsey.
“From above, the Konsen Plateau in eastern Hokkaido offers a remarkable sight: a massive grid that spreads across the rural landscape like a checkerboard.” NASA’s Earth Observatory has the details.
A fascinating—and lengthy—interview with “the incomparable” Jim O’Rourke.
