Read The Design of Everyday Things

Philips' company town turned design city: Dutch Design Week, Strijp-S and the Van Abbemuseum.

Viktor Frankl in Auschwitz and the psychology he built from it; those with a why can bear any how.

Freud's royal road to the unconscious, from 1899.

A woman shut in a nursery for a rest cure starts reading the wallpaper and finds a figure creeping behind the pattern.

Tracy Kidder inside Data General building a computer in 1979; the first great tech book.

Steven Levy on the MIT hackers, the homebrew club and the game makers who built the culture.

Knuth's volumes since 1968; the book programmers own and do not finish.

Twenty-one million built: the people's car that outlived the regime that ordered it.