History

Around 25 books about how we got here and how we remember it. Svetlana Alexievich’s Second-Hand Time on the end of the Soviet century, Joshua Foer’s Moonwalking with Einstein on memory itself, Steven Johnson’s Where Good Ideas Come From on the history of innovation, and The Age of AI on the shift now underway. Narrative history rather than reference volumes: written to be read cover to cover, with the sourcing to hold up.