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The 2022 Tournament of Books Long List

Anticipating the 2022 Tournament of Books, presented by Field Notes, here are the 68 most Rooster-worthy books of 2021.

A study finds the drop in air travel by major sports teams during pandemic reduced their carbon footprints by 22 percent.

↩︎ Concordia University 4d

An interview with Randy Newman and TMN's Rosecrans Baldwin on why people are reluctant to say they love Los Angeles.

↩︎ The New York Times 1w

Sex parties in New York are said to be better than ever, "in part because of a refreshing influx of new faces."

↩︎ The Cut 1w

Since 2010, there has been a sharp rise in the share of males and females (18 to 35) who report not having sex in the prior year.

↩︎ Institute for Family Studies 1w

Ninety percent of their discourse is about the discourse. Anecdotalism was also rampant at the conference—generalizing from three anecdotes about people who got canceled to conclude that all of American life is a woke hellscape. They need to get out more.

David Brooks makes friends with the intellectual conservative youth.

↩︎ The Atlantic

“Cost Disease Socialism” attends to inflation "while leaving the cause of the underlying costs unaddressed."

↩︎ The New York Times 1w

A collection of vintage covers from more than 1,300 outdoor recreation catalogs and magazines.

↩︎ Utah State University 1w

Susanne Wedlich on slime: "Slime makes humans biological creatures, yet becomes the line of demarcation between us and the Other."

↩︎ Granta 1w

Rugs by Azerbaijani artist Faig Ahmed "billow into a pool of glitches and skewed motifs."

↩︎ Colossal 1w

Standouts from the Natural Landscape Photography Awards.

↩︎ Natural Landscape Photography Awards 1w

The FTC intends to crack down publications that require people to call to cancel their subscriptions.

↩︎ Nieman Journalism Lab 1w

Precise, geometric paintings of buildings in various cities, by Bianca Wilson.

↩︎ Booooooom 1w

"The suburban school is an imagined space that invites an unhealthy amount of hyperbole, misinterpretation and fear."

↩︎ The New York Times 1w

An interactive timeline of asteroids that have passed between the Moon and the Earth.

↩︎ The Planetary Society 1w

Of Harvard's white students, 43% are recruited athletes, legacies, the children of donors, or the children of faculty and staff.

↩︎ The Guardian 1w

More than 200 musicians are protesting venues' use of Amazon palm scanners, citing concerns about biometric data collection.

↩︎ Pitchfork 1w

"What they forgot about was people." To fix the continent, North American leaders need to stop focusing on goods and markets.

↩︎ Foreign Policy 1w

A brilliant reverse-lookup dictionary. (Not unlike the Word Menu, IYKYK.)

↩︎ OneLook 1w

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↩︎ TMN Membership 1w