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Monday, February 2, 2026

Review: The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

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  Review: The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner With reflections on Casey Cep ’s introduction and Faulkner’s racial legacy Reading The...
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Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Twelve Windows into History: A Year of Reading History Books in 2025

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  In 2025, twelve of the fifty books I read were histories. Together they spanned continents, centuries, ideologies, and genres. Some were s...
Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow: A Great and Complex Founder of America

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Ron Chernow ’s Alexander Hamilton is one of those rare biographies that does two things at once: it resurrects a historical figure in full ...
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Sunday, January 18, 2026

Breath by James Nestor: We All Breathe Badly!!

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As a book, Breath works because it sneaks physiology in through storytelling. Nestor uses explorers, monks, athletes, dentists, and oddbal...
Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Hannah Arendt’s On Revolution: The Book That Explains Why Revolutions Keep Failing

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  Hannah Arendt ’s On Revolution  is the book people come to later, after reading  The Origins of Totalitarianism  and Eichmann in Jerusalem...
Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Living on the Edge: Reading All of Sebastian Junger

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Sebastian Junger Over the past fifteen months I read all six of Sebastian Junger’s books. I didn’t plan it as a project, but once it started...
Saturday, January 10, 2026

Sherlock Holmes, The Dog That Didn't Bark, and Protests in Iran

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  The phrase “ The dog that didn’t bark ” is one of my favorite metaphors from Arthur Conan Doyle ’s imagination.  In this case part of the ...