Ivar Hagendoorn

Ivar Hagendoorn

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Further Reading

Why real interest rates are low. Gerhard Richter on the art market bubble. Interview with Rem Koolhaas. Part 2 of Knausgaard’s passage through America. Abhijit Banerjee on what we know and don’t know about microcredit. A strange connection between number theory, algebra and string theory. And more.
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Further Reading

Karl Ove Knausgaard is traveling across America. Interview with John Ioannidis. Interview with Yasmina Reza. The selfish ribosome. In Balanchine’s beautiful forest. Art as an asset class. The idea of two sexes is simplistic. The problem with action movies today. In search of authenticity. And more.
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Further Reading

Luciano Floridi on the philosophy of information. Remy Charlip and the problems of dance notation. Chris Ware interviewed by Jeet Heer. A speech by Karl Ove Knausgaard. 24 pieces of life advice from Werner Herzog. Tim Parks on the limits of satire. Arundhati Roy on the scourge of caste. And more.
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Further Reading

John Kemp on the distinction between breakeven and shut-in prices for oil wells. Stunning aerial photos of NYC at night. Mathematicians have uncovered the four basic rules behind the ancient Japanese art of kirigami. An essay about Srinivasa Ramanujan. An interview with Michel Houellebecq. And more.
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Further Reading

The girl with a pearl earring may not be wearing a pearl earring. How a commercial airplane is built. Longform Best of 2014. What happens when you strike a match. The Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal remembered. Why is everyone so busy? Britain’s war in Afghanistan. Books of the year. And more.
· Blog | Literature | Non-Fiction

The Best Books of 2014

A selection of the best books I read in 2014 in various categories, from best fiction and best non-fiction to most fashionable, most eye-opening and the best book about Wittgenstein that is(n't) about Wittgenstein.
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Further Reading

A resistance checklist by Lebbeus Woods. The reason I'm so inefficient. The Nobel Prize in Economics goes to Jean Tirole. Andrew Gelman & Eric Loken on the statistical crisis in science. The ubiquitous Tracy-Widom distribution. Kishtwar Kailash: road to basecamp. Why hipsters look alike. And more.
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Further Reading

JM Coetzee and psychotherapist Arabella Kurtz in conversation. Sand is rarer than you might think. The most detailed map yet of our place in the universe. Why walking helps us think. A Q&A with Karl Ove Knausgaard. Dreadnoughtus: a new dinosaur discovery. The lethal lure of Mont Blanc. And more.