workweek reading recs (22 September 2025)

[matsushima]

• Fat Torah: Every Body Beloved (2025/08)
• What happens if no one reads? (2025/09)
• Madness on a mountain: for 15 years, my mom was trapped in a mutual psychosis (2025/09)
• Trump is Shutting Down the War on Cancer (2025/09)
• Why Fascists Hate Critical Thinking (2025/09)
• One Vigilante, 22 Cell Tower Fires, and a World of Conspiracies (2025/09)
• 99 Problems: The Ice Cream Truck’s Surprising History (2025/08)
• ‘I love you too!’ My family’s creepy, unsettling week with an AI toy (2025/09)
• The Humanities Aren't Dead Yet (2025/09)

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