Utne Literature Blog

Book Review: The Infinite Resource

Claudia Alterman — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 11:47:40 CST

The Infinite Resource comprehensively offers the facts of our crisis, emphasizes its criticality, and moves along toward crafty innovation ideas, encouraging the employment of our most powerful resource: our minds.

Long Live the Palomino Blackwing 602

Utne Reader Staff — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:07:48 CST

The Blackwing 602 pencil made by Eberhard Faber won a legion of devoted fans including John Steinbeck, Stephen Sondheim, and Chuck Jones, but disappeared in 1998. The legend lives on, though, through the Palomino Blackwing 602, a pencil many enthusiasts say is the next best thing to a vintage example.

Bookmarked: Monks, Yoga, and (Not) Shopping

Utne Reader Staff — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 09:35:27 CST

This week in Bookmarked: The Monks and Me, Fierce Medicine, and You Can Buy Happiness (and It's Cheap)

Bookmarked: Arctic Tribes on Weather and Communities Holding Corporations Accountable

Utne Reader Staff — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 11:15:53 CST

This week in Bookmarked: Arctic Voices and Civic Empowerment in an Age of Corporate Greed.

Bookmarked: Monopolists & Fleas

Utne Reader Staff — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 09:31:58 CST

This week in Bookmarked: The Endless Crisis: How Monopoly-Finance Capital Leads to Economic Stagnation and Killer Stuff and Tons of Money: Appreciating Finds at a Flea Market.

Bookmarked: The Trials of Teaching for America, Nursing Home Survival Guide, and the Founding Fathers on Presidential Power

Utne Reader Staff — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 08:33:27 CST

This week in Bookmarked: Teaching in the Terrordome, Live a Good Life in a Nursing Home, and Mr. President.