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Monday, December 29, 2025

My Books of 2025: A Baker's Dozen of Fiction. Half by Nobel Laureates

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  The Nobel Prize   In 2025, I read 50 books. Of those, thirteen were Fiction.  Of that that baker's dozen, six were by Nobel laureates ...

A Man's Place by Annie Ernaux, a Review

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  Annie Ernaux ’s A Man’s Place is a short book that carries the moral weight of a much larger one. It is nominally about her father—an unr...
Sunday, December 21, 2025

God, Human, Animal, Machine by Megan O’Gieblyn, A Review

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Megan O’Gieblyn ’s God, Human, Animal, Machine is not a book about technology so much as a book about belief—specifically, what happens to ...
Thursday, December 18, 2025

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Michael Shaara’s The Killer Angels is one of the war novels that improves with rereading—not because it grows more comforting, but because ...
Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Don Quixote and Friendship a Review by James Como in Memorium

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  James Como , professor of rhetoric,  a founder of the New York C.S. Lewis Society Last month while I was traveling in Poland and Germany v...
Friday, December 12, 2025

Natzweiler: The Only Nazi Death Camp in France

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  Natzweiler-Struthof was the only major Nazi concentration camp built on French soil, perched high in the Vosges Mountains of Alsace . Its...
Friday, December 5, 2025

The Bensheim-Auerbach Military Cemetery

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  The Bensheim-Auerbach Military Cemetery sits on the wooded slope of the Kirchberg above Auerbach , a district of Bensheim in Hesse , an...