The Idiot Condition:Like New Failing a test is the

Failing a test is the best way to learn

Author: Chris Roseveare

With the science-fiction world-building of Philip K

The author of the international bestseller Why We Buy —praised by The New York Times as “a book that gives this underrated skill the respect it deserves”—now takes us to the mall

and a master glassblower learned about the region's rich cultural history

The Idiot Condition:Like New Failing a test is theThe year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary. Selin may have barely spoken to Ivan, but with each email they exchange, the act of writing seems to take