Favourite things of 2017
Books
- The Age of Em by Robin Hanson
- Oxford Book of Essays by Various
- The Wind’s Twelve Quarters by Ursula LeGuin
- Stories of Your Life by Ted Chiang
- Cultural Amnesia by Clive James
- Strangers Drowning by Larissa Macfarquhar
- The Great Influenza by John Barry
- All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
- Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
- Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- Soonish by the Weinersmiths
- Out of Sheer Rage by Geoff Dyer
- CLOSURE by _why
- Beast and Man by Mary Midgley
- Hitler’s Uranium Club by Jeremy Bernstein.
Worst book: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Essays
- https://polycitta.org/parfit-pratyekabuddha-f7585578c644
Films / TV
- Blade Runner 2049
- Baby Driver
- Logan
- Three Billboards
Albums
- _Diabolicus Felinae Pandemonium_ by Pryapisme
- The Just Joans - You Might Be Smiling Now…
- Various Artists - Diggin In The Carts
- Four Tet - New Energy
- Jonathan Coulton - Solid State
- Alfa Mist - Antiphon
Songs
- Greatest Love of All by Sandra Hüller.
- Satisfied by Lin-Emanuel Miranda.
- Sometimes I Still Feel the Bruise
- Mo Ghille Mear
- Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons
- The Summerhouse
- Bird’s Lament
- Les Fleur
- Dark as a Dungeon
- Immunity
-
ha’Mephorash by Scott Alexander and the Bayesian Choir
- As the World Caves In