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Anyone who knows me knows I am a massive Roger Federer fan. But falling in love with his game in 2012 meant bracing for heartbreak. Here is a reflection on the greatest sports persona of all time.
It is one of Europe's most notorious linguistic puzzles. Here is why the Hungarian language holds a special place in my heart, even though I don't speak a word of it.
Min Jin Lee spent thirty years writing Pachinko. It covers four generations of a Korean family across the twentieth century, from a fishing village in 1910 to Osaka in 1989. It is one of the most important novels of the last decade. It is also, beneath its historical sweep and its moral seriousness, an extraordinarily intimate account of what it costs to survive in a world that has decided, before you were born, what you are worth.
A look at Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens. If you want to understand the "software" that allowed humanity to conquer the globe, this book is the ultimate documentation.