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Thursday, February 12, 2026

Musée Marmottan Monet: History, Collection, and Serene Beauty

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 Tucked away in Paris's 16th arrondissement , the Musée Marmottan Monet is one of city's quietly beautiful museums. It lacks the cr...
Sunday, February 8, 2026

The Unnecessary Alliance: Barbarossa Unleashed and the Moral Cost of Victory

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  In Barbarossa Unleashed , Craig Luther  makes an unsettling argument: the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 was doomed not beca...
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...