Who is Government?

Who is Government?Who works for the government and why does their work matter? Michael Lewis invited his favorite writers, including Casey Cep, Dave Eggers, John Lanchester, Geraldine Brooks, Sarah Vowell, and W. Kamau Bell, to join him in writing about someone doing an interesting job for the government. The stories they found are unexpected, riveting, and inspiring, including a former coal miner devoted to making mine roofs less likely to collapse, saving thousands

The reactionary is anything but a conservative

and persistence—binds us to histories both chosen and imposed

His hugely influential lessons on happiness are a call to appreciate the joy of being alive

Bright Unbearable Reality contains eleven essays set on four continents and united by a common thread of communion and longing

as the proving ground where so much of grownup life takes place

The Genealogy of Kings (Malay: Sulalat al-Salatin or Sejarah Melayu)

What he calls "an expansive metaphor" is "a farmer's relationship to his land as the basic and central relation of humanity to creation

Sennett presented discourse as the foundation of democracy

offering both a doorway into the Banokeling worldview and a creative reflection on how culture can be experienced

Taken together

each of the collaborations find musicians using the mixing of genres to explore fusions of generations

A multilayered exploration of poetry