Hello, Quartz members, and welcome to Sunday Reads! From Greenland to the Panama Canal, it’s been a week of head-scratchingly swift activity that may, as Shakespeare’s Macbeth famously said, be no more than “a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.” We also had a new Congress sworn in, Jimmy Carter’s funeral, the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and the horrific Los Angeles wildfires. But it’s Sunday, and time to shift your gaze to some hand-selected reads.