Along with Borges and García Márquez, Cortázar is not only one of the greatest Latin American writers of all time but one of the all-time geniuses of prose, period. He’s…

This is regarded as one of the best, most essential programming texts of all time, and “has had a dramatic impact on computer science curricula”. It’s been around for a…

This book is a fascinating look at how people can better communicate. Not a wishy-washy manifesto about empathy or listening or teamwork; no, it seems rather to be a lovely…

This is the kind of book I really have no business reading—as in, I’m woefully unequipped to understand much of its subject matter, and no practical benefit will accrue to…

This one’s a design classic — and, at least if we’re taking the preface at face value (not sure if it’s still current), “the most widely read book on design…

A fantastically interesting and illuminating new book from one of the most wide-ranging thinkers I know of — all about how we create and organize knowledge. This is straight Eco-the-semiotician…