Books, Space, Folly: morning, computer

From The Observer, the best books of 2021 as chosen by authors. Wonderfully, I only own one of the mentioned books, so I have some discovering to do. Solid curational work has never been so undervalued and has rarely been so important.

At the Economist, another reminder that I need to read the new Olga Tokarczuk. Another day. I’m half blind from screen-related eyestrain today after spending much of yesterday in deep-dive research. While I was doing that, NASA was apparently working out how to keep the ISS in orbit without Russian help.

Ethel Reed is “not just the most famous woman poster designer in the American canon, but the only woman of the canon.”