FYI #94
Australian bird of the year 2025: nominate your favourite now, via The Guardian
Behind the scenes of Good Things—out tomorrow, via Samin Nosrat’s A Grain of Salt newsletter. I’m not much of a cook but I enjoy reading and listening to people talk about food. I’m looking forward to Nosrat’s new cookbook, Good Things. How Samin Nosrat Learned to Love the Recipe, by Dan Kois, via the New Yorker.
Equator, a new magazine launching soon… A new world is emerging from the ruins of the liberal order. But the prestige publications of the West are ill-equipped to comprehend its challenges – and its possibilities. Enter Equator, an international platform, founded by writers and editors from far and wide, charting this new reality on its own terms.
The Ultimate Fall 2025 Reading List, via LitHub
This book is a financial experiment, by Mindy Seu & Yancey Strickler, via Metalabel
Rethink: The Dangerous Myth of Genius, by Rachel Botsman
Large Language Muddle, piece by the editors of N+1… ‘An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny. The simplest reason to refuse resignation is that resignation can only harmonize with the tech-industry narrative of AI inevitability.’
Fashion Neurosis with Rachel Kushner, with Bella Freud
The Blank Page Revolution, by Steven Johnson
Social media causes more harm than good, by Paris Marx, via Disconnect
Lakwena Maciver: the renowned artist on colour, creativity, criticism and connection, via the Modern House
Reading recommendation: Francesca Wade’s biography of Gertrude Stein. Adam Thirlwell writes about Stein and Wade’s book in the London Review of Books.