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  The problems of contemporary society are fundamentally religious in nature.

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  In fact, like many others, I've lately been hyperfixated on the idea that our problems are astonishingly religious in nature.

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Music critic of The New Yorker since 1996 and author of The Rest Is Noise, Listen to This and Wagnerism.

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  Contemporary composition is as vital as ever.

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  Although the musical scene exhilarates me more than ever - contemporary composition is eternally vital - I wouldn't want to overstay my welcome.

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Writer and author of All the Wrong Moves; his newsletter covers meditation, relationships and creativity, and he co-runs a perfume line.

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  Most contemporary restaurants are over-optimized, investor-backed, and homogenized by branding rather than genuine culinary vision.

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  The average restaurant in NYC is, at this point, stupidly optimized, backed by wealthy investors, coated in impeccable branding.

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  Muybridge

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  I think this book is a contemporary masterpiece? A cartoonist at the top of his game, a perfect meeting of subject and medium, and beautiful book design by Drawn and Quarterly.

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China economy researcher based in Beijing who writes on his personal blog about Chinese political economy, history, books and music.

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  Specimen Days

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  Tying them all together is Whitman's love for the American landscape and people, and his unique voice, so fresh he still seems like a contemporary.

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Staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes the Infinite Scroll column, and author of Filterworld and The Longing for Less.

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  Contemporary consumer products no longer claim purity or naturalness; they present themselves openly as artificial mixtures.

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  Any pretense of the pure or organic is undercut by a kind of willful alchemy; everything is an admixture.

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Co-founder of Foundry Group and of Techstars. Has blogged at Feld Thoughts since 2004 and has written or co-written nine non-fiction books on startups and venture capital.

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  The System: A Novel of the Deep State

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  I love Barry’s writing and read every book he writes. He has total mastery of the contemporary thriller with extraordinarily vibrant characters and a zillion endnotes that tie to things that are actually happening in the real world.

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Novelist and critic, author of The Body Scout and Metallic Realms; writes the newsletter Counter Craft on fiction craft and the publishing industry.

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  Season of the Swamp

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  Yuri Herrera is one of the few contemporary authors whose books I will always buy and know I will love.

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Statistician at Carnegie Mellon; writes on complex systems, machine learning and inference, and has kept a books-read notebook since 2000 that is now thousands of entries long.

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  Sunglasses After Dark

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  Mind candy, horror/contemporary fantasy: the first four "Sonja Blue" novels.

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  In the Blood

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  Mind candy, horror/contemporary fantasy: the first four "Sonja Blue" novels.

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  Paint It Black

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  Mind candy, horror/contemporary fantasy: the first four "Sonja Blue" novels.

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