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The New York Times Magazine –Remembering some of the artists, innovators and thinkers we lost in the past year
The Millions have now published their Most Anticipated: The Great First-Half 2020 Book Preview, covering some 140 books.
Meanwhile, at Buzzfeed Arianna Rebolini and Tomi Obaro explain These Are Our Most Highly Anticipated Books Of 2020 -- 83 titles, both fiction and non.
Neither, however, includes the second volume of Peter Weiss' The Aesthetics of Resistance, coming from Duke University Presss (fifteen years after the first volume was published in translation; there's still one more to go) -- surely one of the highlights of the year.
Rex Sorgatz has been compiling a collection of lists related to the 2010s decade— best movies, worst TV shows, top inventions, the defining memes, that sort of thing. There are over 500 lists in the collection, so Sorgatz has helpfully posted the best of these lists in a Twitter thread.
From this list of the most popular baby names, we learn that the top boys names tend toward the biblical and traditional (Noah, Jacob, William, Elijah) while girls names are less so (Emma, Olivia, Ava, Mia, Madison).
Among the top 20 scientific discoveries of the decade is CRISPR, detecting gravitational waves, and fleshing out the human family tree.
Serial and Missing Richard Simmons were two of the podcasts that defined the 2010s. Not sure how you can leave Slow Burn off of here though…
The 100 Best Shoes of the Decade. Counterpoint: almost all of these shoes are terrible — gaudy celeb-driven collectables about as classy as commemorative plates.
The Tesla Model S and the Chevy Volt both made it on Car & Driver’s list of the 10 Most Significant Cars of the 2010s.
Check out the thread for all of the best lists.
The real target of the US assassination of Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani – China South China Morning Post
US troops out of Iraq? What that would mean for both countries. Christian Science Monitor
The World Paid Attention to the Wrong Iraqi Protests The Atlantic
The War Nerd: Iran’s Qassam Soleimani Was a Great General, One of the Very Few Our Era Will See Gary Brecher, Anti-Empire
Marg bar ___ Language Log. Generally translated as “Death to _____.”
When You Hear That Your Book Just Made The Bestseller List
It’s rare that a book hitting the list is a total surprise, but there are nail-biters and books that hit higher than we expected and that’s a beautiful thing … but not as beautiful as making that call to an author who has worked so hard to make her book a reality and telling her that she is an official NYT best seller. – The New York Times
Throw your testicles London Review of Books