The year in reading…
  

• The Lonely Ones by Emily Cooke
   
• What Should Be the Function of Criticism Today? by Anis Shivani
   
• A short history of Homo sapiens, as well as a prognosis for our survival by Charles C. Mann 
   
• On meeting one’s cooler self by Eric Puchner
   
• Silly Theory (Or, the Second Time as Farce) by J.A. Stein
   
• Nixon’s statement “In Event of Moon Disaster” by William Safire
   
• Rocket and Lightship: Meditations on life and letters by Adam Kirsch
   
• Kafka’s Wound: A digital essay by Will Self
   
• The last book party: Publishing drinks to a life after death by Gideon Lewis-Kraus
   
• On Making Sentences Do Something by Christopher Beha
   
• On artist colonies and why they actually work by Alex Chee
   
• On living, dying, and the digital afterlife by Maria Bustillos
   
• On Poetry and Fear by Mary Ruefle
   
• [Audio] Zadie Smith reads Frank O’Hara’s poem “Animals”
   
• Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit by David Graeber
   
• On bibliophilia by Julian Barnes