Ecco Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/ecco/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:18:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Ecco Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/ecco/ 32 32 Public Picks 2023 https://www.publicbooks.org/public-picks-2023/ Thu, 25 Jan 2024 16:00:07 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=54669 What were the books of 2023 that dazzled, challenged, and inspired us?

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]]> Past Dictators Never Die https://www.publicbooks.org/past-dictators-never-die/ Fri, 09 Apr 2021 14:00:04 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=42321 What happens when a regime founded upon exclusion, racism, nationalism, and an authoritarian leader ends? In Spain, such a regime never really ended.

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]]> Pay Attention When They Tell You to Forget https://www.publicbooks.org/pay-attention-when-they-tell-you-to-forget/ Tue, 23 Mar 2021 15:00:47 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=41951 Remember that anti-Black violence has been the central dynamic of US history—and how Black women have struggled with this violence for centuries.

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]]> Why Write? Toward a Style for Climate Change https://www.publicbooks.org/why-write-toward-a-style-for-climate-change/ Mon, 15 Feb 2021 16:00:05 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=41197 What should climate-change writing be? What is its ambition as it moves forward?

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]]> Anticipating Extinction in the Tales of Two Fish https://www.publicbooks.org/anticipating-extinction-in-the-tales-of-two-fish/ Wed, 13 Jan 2021 16:00:35 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=40516 Deciding to not order the tuna or eel at a restaurant won’t save those dying species. But imagining a new kind of “multispecies thriving” might.

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]]> On Our Nightstands: January 2020 https://www.publicbooks.org/on-our-nightstands-january-2020/ Fri, 31 Jan 2020 16:00:49 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=33674 At Public Books, our editorial staff and contributors are hard at work to provide readers with thought-provoking articles. But when the workday is done, what is ...

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]]> The Rubble of Creation https://www.publicbooks.org/the-rubble-of-creation/ Wed, 12 Jun 2019 15:00:28 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=28731 This spring, I was enchanted by the story of mathematician Karen Uhlenbeck, awarded the Norwegian Abel Prize in 2019 for her work on bubbles, who at 76 still relishes the “technical obstacle,” “secrets,” and “mystery” of ...

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]]> The Pinsetter’s Lament https://www.publicbooks.org/the-pinsetters-lament/ Wed, 30 Jan 2019 16:00:14 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=26106 What makes humans human? What distinguishes us from the machines we design to perform our tasks, machines we admire for their elegant mimicry, then resent and fear? If a compelling case ...

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