Class: A Guide Through the American Status System

Paul Fussell's book about the way we act is acerbic, revealing, and funny.

Yūgao-tei

A rustic teahouse built on a pond in the Kenroku-en garden in Japan. Image

Minimalist advice

http://mnmlist.com/
Monotonous but respectable.

The Slow Movement

Resists the homogenized, the rushed, and the tasteless.

черный хлеб

Russian black bread.

Grigory Perelman

Proved the Poincaré conjecture, and now keeps to himself and will not stoop to accept prizes.

Lei Cidade Limpa

"In 2007, the world's fourth-largest metropolis and Brazil's most important city, São Paulo, became the first city outside of the communist world to put into effect a radical, near-complete ban on outdoor advertising."

José Gonzalo Zulaika

better known as Aita Donostia was a priest and musicologist who studied Basque folklore. Wrote music extensively, including piano transcriptions of Basque folk songs.

Euclid's Elements

As Littlewood said to me once [of the ancient Greeks], they are not clever school boys or 'scholarship candidates', but 'Fellows of another college.'

— Godfrey Harold Hardy

Frösöblomster

Wilhelm Peterson-Berger wrote these warm, lyrical piano songs in the rustic house he built on the island of Frösö.