The 2023 Tournament of Books Long List
by The Tournament of Books Staff
Looking ahead to the 2023 Tournament of Books, presented by Field Notes, with 68 works of fiction we admired this year.
After 1990, key changes are employed much less frequently, if at all, in number one hit songs. What happened? Rap and computers.
Harmonic changes not only make “SICKO MODE” stand out, but its structural complexity makes it more akin to a classical composition than a typical hip-hop hit of the last decade. Justice for the key change!
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Fiji’s “unprecedented” progress in relocating people threatened by climate change previews some of the challenges still to come.
Fiji’s “unprecedented” progress in relocating people threatened by climate change previews some of the challenges still to come.
↩︎ The Guardian
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11,000km, 10 countries, 5 months, 1 American, 1 Kiwi.
For your weekly wanderlust, another chapter in McKenzie Barney and partner’s cycling journey from Cairo to Cape Town. Or, as she summarizes it, “11,000km, 10 countries, 5 months, 1 American, 1 Kiwi.”
See previously: Egypt, Sudan. Also some nice reportage and photographs.
Recently sold at auction: Elvis Presley’s 1971 Stutz Blackhawk.
Recently sold at auction: Elvis Presley’s 1971 Stutz Blackhawk.
↩︎ Mecum’s Auctions
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