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The white sheep comes home to roost.
Lisa Ko • The Leavers (National Book Award Finalist): A Novel
On a gray Saturday morning in March of 1976, two nattily dressed London sophisticates left the city, driving west toward the decidedly unfashionable environs of rural Gloucestershire. One of the two was Eric Lister, owner of a quirky art gallery called the Portal. The other had a much higher profile. At age 42, Tom Maschler was already something of... See more
Can a company that wants to make the best-quality outdoor clothing in the world be the size of Nike? Can a ten-table, three-star French restaurant retain its third star when it adds fifty tables? Can you have it all? The question haunted me throughout the 1980s as Patagonia evolved.
Yvon Chouinard • Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
From its beginnings, however, the conservation ethic was sharply curtailed by the coal industry.
Eliza Griswold • Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
provincial
Gillian Flynn • Gone Girl: A Novel
Ferruginous
John McPhee • Annals of the Former World
Harley had decided to give up on lawn care and go to work installing residential gas pipelines. There
Eliza Griswold • Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
“Predatory inclusion” is what historian Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor calls it in her book Race for Profit, describing the long-standing American tradition of incorporating marginalized people into housing and financial schemes through bad deals when they are denied good ones. The exclusion of poor people from traditional banking and credit systems has f
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