While the practical aspects of new adulthood can be nerve-wracking--dating, job-hunting, money-managing--the most important task of all is figuring out who you are and where you fit in the world. Author and comedian Sara Benincasa, now in her mid-thirties, had an absolutely harrowing early twenties and now, on the other side, she has a LOT of hard-earned wisdom and common sense to share--

"Finn is awakened in the night by something rustling around inside their head. It isn't heavy like a worry, it doesn't swirl like a fear, and it certainly isn't shaped like a question. It's something much more exciting--an idea! Finn can't wait to share it, and they do, at school, with their best friend Sima. Sharing energizes the idea. Then the more Finn thinks about it, the more the idea grows, and by the end of the day the idea is huge and amazing....

Continuación de ideas diversas es una sucesión de piezas breves sobre los temas más variados -la literatura, por supuesto, pero también las artes plásticas, el insomnio, la perplejidad ante el paso del tiempo, etcétera- unidas por el tantas veces olvidado tono de la reflexión. Es inútil, pues, intentar describir este libro desde el «trata de»: la apuesta de Aira es mucho más radical. Quiere devolver el lenguaje al centro de la tarea del...

Traces three thousand years of Western history to profile influential ideas and setbacks that have shaped the modern world, from the spread of monotheism and the invention of the printing press to the U.S. metric campaign and the smart drink trend.

"Why has the flow of big, world-changing ideas slowed down? A provocative look at what happens next at the frontiers of human knowledge"--