Death of the Book
By Adam Smyth
Sometimes we ignore a book’s material presence: absorbed, ‘good’ reading is often figured as a forgetting of the material conditions of book, body, room and time, even though these conditions affect how we read. With certain other books it makes no sense to separate text from object.
Bibliophobia: The End and the Beginning of the Book
by Brian Cummings.
Give your mom a gun
By Geoff Mann
There are seventy million more privately held guns in the US – around four hundred million of them – than there are people. AR-15s comprise about 5 per cent of the total, but it is currently the best-selling rifle in the country.
American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15
by Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson.
Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture and Control in Cold War America
by Andrew C. McKevitt.
Nature Magazine – February 28, 2024: The latest issue cover features ‘Tale of the Tails’ – How a genetic element aided tail loss in humans and apes; RNA-editing therapies for genetic diseases have in the past few months gained approval for clinical trials, raising hopes for safer treatments…
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