Updates

  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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Society and culture

10 topics holding 623 books. Each opens its own page with its books, tier first, and the people who recommend them.

Anthropology and human originsHolds anthropology and long-run accounts of human societies: hunter-gatherers, the evolution of cooperation and sex, myth, ritual, language and the…36 books
Cities and urban lifeHolds books on how cities grow, work and fail, from Jane Jacobs and Lewis Mumford to Edward Glaeser, Jan Gehl and studies of single cities such as…29 books
Consumer culture and cultural criticismHolds essays and criticism on American and Western culture, from Orwell, Didion and Tom Wolfe to Lasch, plus reporting on brands, fast food, luxury,…111 books
Demography, migration and generationsHolds books on population growth and decline, ageing, immigration and generational cycles, from The Population Bomb to Empty Planet and The Fourth…28 books
Globalisation and national societiesHolds portraits of single countries and regions, from India, China, Japan and the Gulf to Italy and Scandinavia, and books that follow a commodity…91 books
Media and technology in societyHolds McLuhan, Postman and later writers on what television, the internet, social platforms and new technology do to attention, politics and daily…72 books
Race, gender and identityHolds books on race and racism, feminism and women at work, sexuality and relationships, and memoirs written from those identities.75 books
Social behaviour and collective actionHolds books on how groups think and act: crowds, networks, tipping points, collective action, polarisation and the social science of everyday…60 books
Wealth, poverty and inequalityHolds books on the rich and the poor: inequality data, plutocrats and offshore wealth, poverty and development aid, philanthropy, and the economics…69 books
Work, labour and industrial societyHolds books on jobs and workplaces, the gig economy, employee ownership and co-operatives, factory and warehouse labour, and Peter Drucker's essays…52 books

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