Greetings! For my first post of the year (sheesh), I've decided to do something incredibly silly by defending Jared Diamond's *Guns, Germs, and Steel* against its critics... nearly all of them. Enjoy! https://t.co/74KhpXYhI2— Davis Kedrosky (@dkedrosky) June 8, 2023

[speechless] https://t.co/krpR53MFsS— Amal El-Mohtar (@tithenai) May 8, 2023 The author of that time war book reacting to how the viral tweet is sending her book to the top of the Amazon best sellers list

what are examples of essayistic passages inside a novel or longer work of fiction that you appreciate and think are not overbearing? contemporary or historical, who does it best?— Bassem (@bassem__saad) January 17, 2023