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The library seeks to showcase lives and minds who exemplify a Boundless existence — books that intertwine ideas and experiences that feel expansive and magical.
Story of a Life (1945–1963)
A Russian life told across revolution, civil war and everything after — six volumes of it. Paustovsky was a tram conductor, a medical orderly, a factory worker and a reporter before he was a writer, and the book reads like someone who understood that none of that was a detour.
Eros the Bittersweet (1986)
A classicist reads Sappho and finds a theory of desire. Philology, philosophy and criticism held in one hand — the clearest demonstration in print that a discipline is a way of paying attention rather than a fence.
When We Cease to Understand the World (2020)
Schwarzschild, Grothendieck, Heisenberg — real scientists rendered in prose that refuses to say where the record stops and the invention starts. A book about what happens at the edge of a discipline, written from the edge of a genre.
Fictions (1944)
Metaphysics, mathematics and library catalogues treated as material for short stories. Borges worked as a municipal librarian while writing them, which is either irrelevant or the entire point.
The Matter with Things (2021)
Neuroscience, philosophy and epistemology across two volumes, arguing that how we attend to the world determines what we find there. The most sustained modern case against the reduction this project exists to argue with.
How Much Is Enough? (2012)
An economist and his philosopher son asking the question economics forgot it existed to answer: what is money for? Two disciplines in one household, aimed at the same problem — the book is the argument between them.
The Gift (1983)
Anthropology, poetry and economics braided into one argument: that art moves as gift, not commodity, and dies when the market is the only circuit. Nobody standing inside a single one of those fields could have written it.
Liquid Modernity (2000)
The sociologist who named our condition: solid careers, fixed identities and lifelong institutions melting into something you must keep swimming in. Twenty-five years old, and reads like the pre-history of this publication’s thesis.
Super-Infinite (2022)
John Donne: poet, lawyer, soldier, MP, sea-adventurer, convert, priest, dean — a man who refused one lane so completely that his biographers still cannot file him. Written, fittingly, by a Renaissance scholar who also writes children’s books.
John Maynard Keynes (2003)
Keynes was a probability theorist, a Bloomsbury aesthete, a ballet-world husband, a currency speculator and a Treasury man — and Skidelsky shows the economics could not have existed without the rest. Range as the engine of the century’s most consequential ideas.
Rites of Spring (1989)
The Great War told through a ballet riot, aviation, and the modernist imagination — history written as if art and war were one subject, because they were. A demonstration that the borders between disciplines are also borders between explanations.
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