Culture
The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop

Non-fiction November I don't like liars. If you're going to advertise K-pop in the title, have more than two pages on the subject. Also, don't be so condescending about it. Sorry not sorry that it's popular. The rest is passable. It's nothing you won't know if you paid attention in world history. 📱 Th......more

It’s not always a pretty story, and shouldn’t be presented as such, but it’s the only one we’ve got: the history of humans as a culture-producing species. It’s the story of us. In Culture: The Story of Us, literary critic and Harvard professor of Drama, English, and Comparative Literature Martin......more

Culture, Puchner says, is a broken chain that humans repair every generation. While destruction and cultural development go hand in hand, this does not preclude the fact that humans are culture-producing animals who have, for millennia, relied on the availability of new forms of expression and meani......more

A curious book and cool approach but felt it missed a mark for me. The book is based in the idea that culture is a mixture of forgetting, destruction, revival and reinterpretation. Each chapter is a story about culture from one of these perspectives, moving from past to present. But there was little......more

A fascinating look at the ways culture is always informed by what came before it, and the ways ideas pollinate and spread across time and space. I don’t know if I always bought Puchner’s arguments - so much of it is in support of a thesis that cultures cannot be owned or appropriated that I think it......more